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Did you know that this week is Deaf Awareness Week ❓ Deaf Awareness Week promotes understanding and inclusion for the Deaf community. It takes place from 6th to 12th May and aims to raise awareness about the Deaf community, their language, culture, and history. Major new research by the RNID highlights the impact of negative attitudes and a lack of understanding on a daily basis for those with hearing loss. We are here to help change this. #deafsociety #deafawareness #deaf #increasingawareness #changingperceptions

Here are the top 5 reasons your building needs Deaf Alerter: ✨ Compliance: Deaf Alerter fully complies with British and European Standards, BS5839-1 and EN54, ensuring you meet the necessary regulations. ✨ Equality: The Equality Act 2010 requires equal access for all, and Deaf Alerter helps you achieve that for safety systems like fire alarms and public address systems. ✨ Coverage: With Deaf Alerter, you can ensure guaranteed full building coverage with no black spots, keeping D/deaf people safe wherever they are in your building. ✨ Nationwide: The unique 'national roaming' system allows Alerter users to receive emergency messages and communications in any building displaying the Deaf Alerter symbol. ✨ Flexibility: Deaf Alerter includes Message Manager software, enabling you to send private messages, public address messages, and even useful pre-recorded and scheduled messages. By installing Deaf Alerter, you'll join a community of businesses committed to making their buildings more accessible for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. For more information, please email kjm@alertergroup.com #DeafAlerter #Accessibility #Inclusion #SafetyFirst

We’re thrilled to see that Episode One: Deaf Identity has reached such a large audience within and beyond our Deaf community! Our team originally created this series to generate more discussion about Deaf culture because as we say in the beginning – this docuseries does not reflect or represent the entire Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late-Deafened community. We would love to know your perspective on the different topics discussed in Deaf Identity – use the hashtag #DeafAnd to join the conversation and share your thoughts! #DeafAnd #DeafIdentity #MorpheyesPresents #Morpheyes #Docuseries #Deaf #DeafCulture ID: This photo is taken from the end of Episode One: Deaf Identity, after the credits. It shows a theater stage, lit with bright stage lights hanging above, and a wooden floor with a pitch-black background. There are four brown chairs arranged in a semi-circle facing the camera, where the interviewees sat during filming. In white text in the center, over the black background of the stage, is a hashtag with the title of the series: #DeafAnd. Underneath it in all capital letters is the phrase: Join the Conversation. End of image description.

This week is Deaf Awareness Week. We're using this as an opportunity to create awareness and celebrate people with varying degrees of deafness. Did you know there are many famous people who are deaf or suffer from hard of hearing? To name a few... Marlee Matlin Nyle DiMarco Beethoven Helen Keller Shoshanna Stern Follow the link in our comments to learn more about deafness and how our Access Network and wider business have been improving how we have been making Goodman Masson a more accessible place to work. #DeafAwarenessWeek #Deafness #DiversityAndInclusion

When I succinctly summarize Deaf issues by labelling discrimination for what it is, I am often told I am not doing a good enough job explaining it. When I try to explain the history behind the issue, people are mad I didn't explain it short enough. And when I break it down into 1 minute pieces, people say they don't get how it all connects. Really it just feels like people don't like acknowledging their discrimination against Deaf. This is an attempt at summarizing all of Deaf history as it relates to Deaf identity and discrimination from what I have processed so far. https://lnkd.in/gnkWpSY7

Just a few musings as we start #DeafAwarenessWeek 🎁 The impact of deafness is usually seen as a negative or a deficit but there’s a gift too. It makes us good observers, adaptable, resilient, great problem solvers and adept at advocating for ourselves. 👇As in most relationships we need you meet us halfway. Here’s some short reads to help you along.

📢 Vital Signs with the Doncaster & District Deaf Society Michelle Dickinson and Rachael Farrell, the Foundation’s very own dynamic duo, visited the Doncaster & District Deaf Society to conduct a community consultation as a part of their Vital Signs Research. Click the link to learn more about their visit: https://lnkd.in/e23wRHEF 🔎 What is Vital Signs? Understanding the needs of a community and the issues it faces is the first step to being able to solve them. This Vital Signs survey feeds into South Yorkshire's Community Foundation's Vital Signs research, a ‘health-check’ that identifies our community's hidden needs and priorities. Using this research, we can provide targeted intervention to tackle critical issues affecting our communities. 📌 For more information on Vital Signs, visit: https://lnkd.in/erMVXnHU ✏ To complete the Vital Signs survey, click here: https://lnkd.in/e6Cd2bjy #DoncasterDeafCommunity #VitalSigns #SouthYorkshireResearch

Hello folks! Our CapTel North Carolina page has combined with our Relay North Carolina page so we wanted to create a quick- identification process to let you know if a post’s information would be helpful for you! Moving forward we will be including the following abbreviations to help keep posts easy to spot: [D] means the post is for our Deaf community. [DB] means the post is for our DeafBlind community. [HOH] means the post is for our Hard of Hearing Community. [SD] means the post has information for those in our community who have speech differences or disabilities. We’re looking forward to continuing to serve you with the best accessibility information! ID: [“Relay North Carolina’s new post identification system. [D] Deaf, [DB] DeafBlind, [HOH] Hard of Hearing, [SD] Speech Differences. All posts will now include easy-to-spot abbreviations.”]

👍 It's Deaf Awareness Week! 👍 Around 11 million people in the UK are deaf or have hearing loss, so Deaf Awareness Week was created to highlight the challenges the deaf community face and share the ways we can help to communicate! Our friends at CNTW help to run a Mental Health and Deafness Service at Walkergate Park, specifically aimed at supporting deaf and deafblind adults who have mental health problems and/or learning disabilities. They have some recommendations for supporting and communicating with those with deafness: 📌 Speak to the deaf person, not the interpreter. 📌When sending appointment letters, provide the option to use text messaging and email to contact the team; please do not ask Deaf people to ring a number. 📌Make sure you have the person’s attention before you start speaking. 📌Places with good lighting and less background noise are best for conversations. 📌Use your normal volume, lip movements and facial expressions; you don’t need to exaggerate or raise your voice. 📌Check whether the person understands what you are saying, and if they don’t, try another way of communicating it – never say ‘don’t worry about it’ and move on. Learn more about Mental Health and Deafness Service and the great work they do on the CNTW website here: https://lnkd.in/ekg7WNwc

Deaf Awareness Week: May 6th-12th, 2024 Join us in recognising the challenges faced by the Deaf community and those with hearing loss during this deaf awareness week. By educating ourselves on essential communication practices, we can take steps to create a more inclusive society and celebrate diversity. #DisabilityJob #DeafAwarenessWeek #HearingLoss #DissabilityintheWorkplace #DiversityandInclusion