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Grumpy Old Deafies
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New BDA CEO makes an appearance
Posted: August 21st, 2008, 12:54pm UTC
As seen on Sign-tube (if you can't get the below video to work, click here), the new BDA Chief Exec took to the stage at the BDA's recent conference in Cardiff... ... it seems he has been learning BSL. As he should indeed! We at GOD didn't make it to the conference this year - did you? Any thoughts? See also: New BDA CEO: Simon Wilkinson-Blake ... -
Charlie Swinbourne: Waiting for baby
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:38pm UTC
Charlie Swinbourne has penned an article for BBC Ouch around his forthcoming fatherhood. When we passed the magic three-month mark, we decided to tell everyone the news. It was then that I noticed something interesting. As happy as my hearing friends were for us, I kept being asked the same question in response - and it wasn't whether our forthcoming arrival was a boy or a girl. "Do you think the baby will be deaf or hearing?" The question didn't offend me, but I can honestly say that until then I had never thought about it. I'd just been thinking, simplistically perhaps, that we were going to have a baby, and preparing myself for all the ... -
Monkhouse Deaf Support Centre Closes
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:32pm UTC
GOD was quoted in The News Guardian last week, around the closure of Monkhouse Deaf Support Centre, Tyneside. The decline is down to: More and more parents of deaf children are choosing normal schools causing a drop in the number of people using the centre, the council claims. The use of labelling such as "normal schools", is derogatory and can be standard terminology in education. In fact, much of education terminology is littered with terms that really need to be thrown in the bin yesterday, but that's a post for another day. For instance, I attended a mainstream school for my entire schooling, but it doesn't give me or anyone else the green light to label ...