Deaf children not being diagnosed ‘until it’s too late’
Thursday April 14 2011
Up to 10,000 adults and children are on waiting lists for a hearing test
Category: News & Events
Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf is accused as man is jailed for sex with 12-year-old
A CULTURE of under-age sex involving girls as young as 12 flourished at a top Newbury school – while staff turned a blind eye, a judge said yesterday (Monday).
Census 2011 translated into Irish Sign Language
Census 2011
The Irish Deaf Society and Irish Deaf Youth Association has translated the Census 2011 questionnaire into Irish Sign Language.
An article on Deaf Education – ‘Asking to be heard’
Please download the article on Deaf Education from ‘Country Living’ (15/01/2011)
Irish Deaf News 79
Click here to watch Irish Deaf News 79 covering the following:
IDS on Winning Streak
Click here to watch Elaine Grehan explaining why the IDS is in the TV programme, Winning Streak on 26 of March 2011.
Limerick Driving Instructors do Deaf Awareness Training Course
If you have a provisional license (green license) and want to learn how to drive in limerick, 10 driving Instructors from Limerick did a 3 hour Deaf Awareness Training course with the Irish Sign Language Academy
Irish Deaf News No 78
Click here to watch this week’s Irish Deaf News about the following:
Madras, India (by Frances Parsons)
Frances Parsons, a retired deaf professor at Gallaudet University, wrote about her time in India where she got to spend time with Miss Boyd, who used to teach for many years at the Ulster Institution on Lisburn Road (did she teach at Jordanstown?) – many older deaf people in Belfast would remember having her as their teacher. There is a few pages from the book about Parsons’ encounter with Miss Boyd.
Belfast vs Dublin Bowling Results
First leg was in dublin deaf club on saturday 12th february:- dublin 3 v belfast 1 – the scores was dublin 55 v belfast 40