UK Deaf Sport and Coronavirus
As with many organisations and charities, UK Deaf Sport (UKDS) has had to adapt and look at different ways to the organisation’s objectives around supporting and enabling opportunities for deaf people to keep active. This update aims to share our experiences over Coronavirus lockdown, some 8 weeks at the time of writing. Back in March […]
Read MoreLambeth Council Now in the SignLive Community Directory
British Sign Language Users in Lambeth can now call the council with SignLive. Calls to Lambeth council are completely free of charge to the Deaf Community thanks our recent partnership. To make a call: 1) Login to the SignLive app or visit https://web.signlive.com/login. 2) Click on the Lambeth Council logo and press call. 3) Be connected […]
Read MoreBSLHealthAccess for the UK’s Deaf community
SignHealth and online interpreting company InterpreterNow, have together launched ‘BSLHealthAccess’ which enables the provision of immediate, on demand access to British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters for communication with Deaf people in health settings free of charge during the current Coronavirus situation. James Watson-O’Neill, SignHealth Chief Executive, says: [quote] I am proud that SignHealth has agreed to […]
Read MoreOfcom – Telecoms
How broadband and mobile firms are protecting vulnerable customers during coronavirus pandemic Keeping the UK’s communications networks going is more important than ever. So we welcome the efforts of the UK’s main broadband and mobile companies who have committed to helping their customers deal with issues they might face as a result of the coronavirus […]
Read MoreCoronavirus Daily Updates
Coronavirus Daily Updates from the Prime Minister will include the provision of an interpreter on BBC 107 or 231. SignHealth are providing updates in BSL and can be viewed on their website at here. Coronavirus update – 22nd March 2020 from Deaf Health Charity SignHealth on Vimeo.
Read MoreConsultation – BSL access 999 emergency
Ofcom’s consultation on introducing an emergency 999 video relay service, has now closed. We hope to see Ofcom’s reaction to the consultation in June 2020. Ofcom have said that if they decide to introduce 999 VRS, it will probably take a year to set it up. We have encouraged Ofcom to make this process as […]
Read MoreUKCoD Health & Social Care Conference
Colleagues from across the health and social sector came together with UKCoD member organisations last week for our annual UKCoD conference. This year the theme was “Creating a Dialogue: Person-centred Practice with D/deaf people in Health and Social Care” and BT once again hosted our conference, this time at BT Centre near St Paul’s Cathedral […]
Read MoreUKCoD Annual Conference
Monday, 11th November at BT Centre, 81 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7AJ Creating a Dialogue: Person-centred practice with d/Deaf people in health & social care This year’s UKCoD conference, hosted by BT, will bring together experts from across the health and social care sector to discuss what best practice looks like when working with people […]
Read MoreThanks to our Sponsors for #DAWrolemodels2019
Monday – Education/Employment Hearing Aid Repair Shop (HARS) At the Hearing Aid Repair Shop (HARS) we pride ourselves on repairing any make and model of hearing aid. We’re a joint venture company, which is owned by Mary Hare School for deaf children and a large multi-national hearing aid company. We started out in 2002 and we’ve […]
Read MoreDeaf Awareness Week 2019
This year our theme for the week is ‘Celebrating Role Models’ and includes a theme for each day for organisations to publicise their role models throughout the week to raise awareness. Sponsorship Our sponsorship pack with full details can be downloaded here Deaf Awareness Week 2019 sponsorship pack (pdf) We are looking for individual organisations to sponsor a theme (unlimited […]
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