Deaf Awareness Week Role Models

  Today SignHealth celebrates their role model, Sarah Powell Sarah’s Story My name is Sarah Powell and I am a clinical psychologist.  Since I was a teenager, I have always been interested in mental health and the impact it has on people.  However, in ‘them days’ there was no deaf clinical psychologist.  This did not stop […]

Today Deaf Direct are supporting role models in Family/Youth during Deaf Awareness Week. Deaf Direct is a local charitable company that has worked with and for deaf and hard of hearing people since 1927. We provide a wide range of services to deaf and hard of hearing people, family members and carers, and professionals and […]

Today Let’s Sign is supporting Deaf Awareness Week. Communication is at the heart of Family life and yet for some children this cannot be taken for granted. Language and culture are usually passed down from one generation to the next but most children  who are born deaf are born to hearing parents who may have […]