ASL Music Video 'Reach Out Your Hand'

VIDEO [CC] - Campaign: Sign2Sing 2016 song 'Reach Out Your Hand' for the annual fundraising event.







Reach Out Your Hand, the song for Sign2Sing 2016, was written by Hollie Williams and Bottle Top Music. The song is sung by Zoe Birkett.



Sign2Sing's video features Fletch with children, staff and parents from Garden Fields JMI School and Heathlands School for the Deaf.

Sign2Sing is the annual fundraising event of the Deaf Health Charity SignHealth raising money to give Deaf children a brighter and healthier future in the UK and Uganda. Sign2Sing 2016 takes place from 1-7 February but you can get involved now on our website, sign2sing.org.uk.



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British School For The Deaf In Sex Abuse Scandal

VIDEO [CC] - Exclusive: Woodford School for the Deaf in decades-long sex abuse scandal - BBC Newsnight documentary film.

LONDON - Newsnight and See Hear can for the first time name the perpetrator of horrific abuse carried out at a London (Woodford) school for the Deaf children over three decades.



The abuser was allowed to prey on the school's pupils even after he was convicted of indecently assaulting two of them, and barred by the Department for Education from being a proprietor of the school. His victims, who fought and failed to win justice, tell their story to Erika Jones.

When Deaf children are abused, they can have extra difficulties in letting people know what has happened. One incidence of abuse from an east London school for Deaf children has demonstrated the problem in a See Hear and Newsnight investigation which has named the perpetrator for the first time.



With limited vocabulary and lack of awareness, many children at Woodford School for Deaf Children tried to tell people they were being sexually abused by the husband of the headmistress, without success.



"There was a busy road with a playground and there'd be people walking past but we had no communication because we couldn't speak, we couldn't sign and they couldn't understand our voices," says James, not his real name, a pupil at the school in the early 1960s. "We'd try and write notes but our vocabulary was limited. The only word we knew was 'rude'."



It is difficult for a child to tell an adult that they have been touched inappropriately, sexually assaulted or raped. If that child is Deaf and can't speak well, or if they use sign language, then communicating even the simplest things can be a challenge... Read More: http://www.bbc.com/news/disability



NOTE: Woodford school for the Deaf' social media is shutting down include a web-site as well. What a shame, hearing Brits!



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Deaf People For Dummies - aka Hearing People

VIDEO [CC] - Social Awareness Message - Hearing People For Dummies.



A hearing blogger Steph Hall shares the social awareness about Deaf and Hearing people in society.



It shares their difficulties and how they overcame their struggles by hearing people.

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Any questions, please comment down below and she'd love to hear your experiences. Steph Intro & Deaf Awareness- https://youtu.be/yY17oEf9e9A



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Deaf Arsonist Set Fire To Deaf Family's Home

VIDEO: Caught on camera: The shocking moment a drug-fuelled arsonist poured a gallon of petrol on to the house of a Deaf family sleeping inside before setting it on fire.



LONDON - A drug-fuelled arsonist has been sentenced to jail after he was caught red-handed on camera trying to set the home of a Deaf family on fire while they were sleeping inside.



Michael Douglas was paid £1,600 to target the victims by pouring petrol onto their house and then setting it alight in the early hours of the early morning.



The family's CCTV cameras caught Douglas, who is profoundly Deaf himself, and an unknown accomplice running up to the house in Bradford, West Yorkshire, emptying a gallon of fuel and setting it alight before making their escape.

The shocking moment a drug-fuelled arsonist poured a gallon of petrol on to the house of a Deaf family sleeping inside before setting it on fire.



Bradford Crown Court heard that the arsonist was drunk and high on cocaine and cannabis when he carried out the attack at 5am on May 26.



He has been jailed for five years and three months after pleading guilty to arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered as well as a variety of motoring offences.



Douglas told police he had been paid £1,600 to 'light the house' but had refused to kidnap the mother who lived there because the whole family was Deaf, the Telegraph & Argus reported.



After the 26-year-old father of four and his accomplice fled the scene, a neighbour called 999 and the victims were unharmed, although the ground floor of their house, their garage and the wheelie bins were damaged... Read more: HERE

BBC Smear Of Deaf Tory MP Goes Viral

VIDEO [CC] - BBC apologises after suggesting partially Deaf Tory MP had fallen asleep.



LONDON - The BBC has apologised after suggesting a partially Deaf Conservative MP was asleep during a debate on the trade union bill when he was in fact trying to listen to a speaker.



Pictures from BBC Parliament of Elmet & Rothwell MP Alec Shelbrooke began circulating on Twitter, prompting the BBC Newsbeat account to tweet on Tuesday morning that the image of the MP “resting his eyes is going viral”.

Very heartfelt apologies to @alecshelbrooke MP. He is partially Deaf and was listening to a speaker. pic.twitter.com/CSvocBZ9qT

— BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) September 15, 2015

After the mistake was flagged, the original tweet was deleted and the BBC put out an apology from the account.



Shelbrooke describes himself as a trade unionist and spoke about the history of trade unionism during the debate. In subsequent images he can be seen opening his eyes while in the same position near the speaker.

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Shelbrooke has since retweeted articles correcting the error and the apology.



His account, @AlecShelbrooke was trending at Tuesday lunchtime, with many still suggesting he was asleep, and others leaping to his defence and criticising Newsbeat for the mistake... See more full story-image: http://theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/15/bbc-apologises-after-suggesting-partially-deaf-tory-mp-had-fallen-asleep

Petition | Stop Moving Deaf To Mainstream Schools

Campaign: Stop moving Deaf children to Mainstream Schools, Keep and Open more Deaf Schools.

Petition by change.org - More Deaf Schools has been closed in last few decades which means more parents of Deaf children have very fewer choices. One or two limited choices available which forced the parents to make decision to move their children to Mainstream Schools.



It costs the Government MORE money to spend money on BSL CSWs or BSL interpreters and all extra unnecessary support for few Deaf pupils at Mainstream Schools.



It was said that many Deaf children losing their Deaf identities including found this is a big barrier to access to Deaf Culture and to Sign Language.



Many Deaf people become Qualified Teachers NOW!! More Deaf people are qualified in specialist subjects and they can teach at Deaf Schools.



"The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) promotes and safeguards the right of all Deaf people to quality education, starting at birth and throughout life. As for all learners, Deaf children have the same right to education and full access to quality education."



WFD then says "Full inclusion for a Deaf learner means a totally supportive, signing and student-centred environment. This permits the learner to develop to his/her full educational, social and emotional potential. This is stated also in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities".



"Otherwise, inclusion as a simple placement in a regular school without meaningful interaction with classmates and professionals at all times is tantamount to exclusion of the Deaf learner from education and society. In such environments, the Deaf child is physically present but may be mentally and socially absent."



Deaf children should not experience mentally and socially absent, as they should easily access to high quality of education via Deaf teachers or Teachers who hold high level of sign language communication.



We are asking the Government to change the current policy of mainstream schools and adopt a language policy to ensure to protect Deaf Schools, and find ways to reopen more Deaf Schools.



See WFD recommendations of the Government to follow UN Convention on the Rights on the Persons with Disabilities http://wfdeaf.org/databank/policies/education-rights-for-deaf-children. Sign this petition - HERE