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Why Deaf awareness?
Writing a page on Facebook was my first attempt to share deaf awareness with the world. It was clear, Facebook wasn’t enough, so here we are with our first blog. “What is Deaf awareness?” or more...
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Ramblings on a Friday night
Sometimes people praise deaf people for what they’ve achieved. It’s related to how they amazingly seem to cope in a world without sound. Something most hearing people can’t imagine. You close your...
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Using Textphones with a deaf person
This is a follow up from my previous blog about telephony and deafness. Let’s look at issues caused by using a textphone (minicom). A textphone is NOT simply a mobile phone with sms facility. I have a...
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35 misconceptions about deafness…and deafblindness
Here are some misconceptions about deafness, deafblindness, deaf people and communication that I have come across at my deaf and deafblind awareness classes. Some of them may be obvious, others not....
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Exploring Deafblindness – it can and does happen to anyone
So what is this all about? To be deafblind – no hearing, no sight – wonder if they know what’s happening around them? Surely deafblind people have lots of help, don’t they? They must be living in...
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Lament of a new resident in an old people’s house
Before you read this – remember the vast majority of people in old people’s homes are likely to be deaf, or deafblind….. Make sure you know how to communicate effectively if you are working in a care...
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Why do deaf people “sound funny”?
Way back in the 1990′s – when I got my Cochlear implant, I started writing a diary. I had been totally deaf from the age of 5 through meningitis. This became a blueprint for a book I was going to...
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Hardest Hit speech given in Manchester on 22nd Oct 2011
The Hardest Hit campaign is a petition and protest to the Government to protect the benefits of disabled people across the UK. The campaign has the following key messages: Disabled people, those with...
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Our Queer Language (and some homophenes for you!)
When deaf people read words, they usually use phonetics to match the word to their voices. Sometimes it doesn’t “sound right” to hearing people. It’s not our fault – blame the English Language! I came...
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