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Comment on Welfare cuts targeting deaf people? by Ian Noon

Ian Noon — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:57:01 +0000

Yes – see the new NDCS campaign action at http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=19&ea.campaign.id=18157

Thanks,

Ian

Comment on Welfare cuts targeting deaf people? by David

David — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:09:59 +0000

I think it is appalling what the government are trying to do. Do you have a template letter that we can use (along with any additional comments we have) to send to our MP?

Comment on Welfare cuts targeting deaf people? by Zoe

Zoe — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:26:33 +0000

I have shared this with the Maidstone Deaf Community – they need to become aware – thanks for sharing Ian

Comment on Welfare cuts targeting deaf people? by Ian Noon: Many deaf people are set to lose their DLA « The Limping Chicken

Ian Noon: Many deaf people are set to lose their DLA « The Limping Chicken — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:14:58 +0000

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Comment on Rita Simons and informed choice by Jill

Jill — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:24:58 +0000

An insightful and sensitive article, Ian. I’ve also looked at the NDCS statement but your article is far more helpful.

Comment on Deaf access fail at the Department for Work and Pensions by Tina

Tina — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:54:15 +0000

Frankly, I expect this of them. And why does it take so long for them to create an online form? I can do that in a few minutes. Hopeless jobsworths!

Comment on Deaf access fail at the Department for Work and Pensions by Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:51:36 +0000

Tax credits were the same – not sure if they changed this. They would not let me speak to get a deaf man the form – they would not post the form to his home address and said he had to go into the office himeself and physically pick up the form. I explained he has no voice and is BSL only and asked how they would communicate with him and they made no allowances. He had to take a family member in and felt like a child. Hopefully this has now changed.

Comment on Deaf awareness of mainstream teachers by christina james

christina james — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:45:32 +0000

I agree that puplils /students should have a class on deaf awareness. I am a student nurse who trying to put a class together for students on deaf awareness i would be very grateful of any help from anyone in the birmingham area ? cmj_james@yahoo.co.uk

Comment on Bling but dodgy new Naida hearing aids by clare

clare — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:08:32 +0000

my daughter has nadias, we have found several times when we have taken them out they are not working, as she is yet to obtain enough speech to tell us they are not working and is not yet three, you can imagine my frustration! hoping we get a new set very soon, hopefully a different model… but who knows what! thanks for the information i have shared this with our audiologist, finally feel i am not mental!

Comment on Am I deaf or what? by Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:27:34 +0000

ever since i was it kid it generally differed like hard of hearing, hearing impaired, etc but never deafness. I hated being deaf let alone being referred to as hard of hearing or whatever. I was brought up in mainstream education, and while i enjoyed the cirriculum, i hated the fact i was basically the only deaf kid so i hated that i was deaf. I refused to wear my hearing aids as a result of not wanting to be the odd one out. From what my mother tells me, i hated p1 cause i couldnt hear everything (though my teacher was my fave). Mind before i entered primary school, the teachers apparently had to go on a training course cause of me (i was to be the most severely deaf kid in school). i am still reluctant to take up the term deaf, but i am much more accepting of it now that i have been cause i joined NDCS only a few years ago which gave me the confidence to wear my hearing aids in public (though im starting to fall out of the habit again) and to refer my self as deaf. I too am a child that straddles two worlds, the hearing and deaf, cause i technically am both (cant hear in my left ear and have partial hearing in my right and i grew up in a hearing world). The only reason i didnt join the deaf community as a kid was that i got bullied so i left after an incident where i was pushed into a pile of chairs (making me feel that i wasnt accepted in the deaf world either). although im more relaxed about my identity, i still have that self-confidence issue every single day and am reluctant to make people repeat things after a third time. i even have chats with my mum about my deafness every now and then, although the last one kinda struck a nerve as she had said that im normal but i just have a little problem. i dunno bout you guys, but to me, my deafness isnt a problem, its something thats normal to me. i find it weird that people can hear out of both ears so its just what ive grown up with. Our experiences make us who we are, and despite all ive been through, i wouldnt change anything in my past as its made me who i am today; a kind, loving, rather blunt, daughter, cousin, niece, granddaughter, friend.