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Volunteering Conference
Tuesday 25th January 2005
10.30 am - 4.30 pm
Venue: Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JP
In 2005 'The UK Year of the Volunteer' this is an opportunity for professionals working with volunteers to meet each other and learn about innovative ideas for recruitment, retention, training and management. There will be examples of best practice from organisations working with deaf and hard of hearing people, as well as information about funding, legal issues and the latest research.
Ruth Johnson, Director of Grant Making at Volunteering England (VE), talking about 'the UK Year of the Volunteer 2005' and how organisations working with volunteers can get involved. Ruth will also provide an overview of the work of VE, looking at how it can support your organisation's work plus a brief explanation about the Opportunities for Volunteering scheme and how to get funding for your work with volunteers.
Roger Hewitt, Projects Manager, UK Council on Deafness on how volunteers have benefited from the many Opportunities for Volunteering projects throughout the country.
Sharon Tynan, Head of Marketing and Fundraising at TimeBank will explain how they work in partnership with organisations, such as Samaritans and Help the Hospice to promote innovative, modern and informed ways of recruiting and caring for volunteers, including their latest, highly successful campaign recruiting volunteers from ethnic minorities. Almost 75,000 have registered with TimeBank, a national charity inspiring and connecting people to share and give time through volunteering.
Robert Parkinson, NDCS Director England. NDCS works with a range of volunteers through its local groups, peer support schemes and programme of training and events. Using examples from this experience, Robert will talk about volunteer recruitment and retention and how the Society goes about training and managing its network of volunteers
Bunty Levine, Trustee and Chair of the Volunteer Planning Team, Hearing Concern on their Opportunities for Volunteering Project in Bradford and how they recruit, train and retain volunteers.
Shafiat Aslam, from the London Ethnic Minority Deaf Association with examples of how their volunteers benefit from training and working with others and how they recruit volunteers with the appropriate skills.
Mark Restall, Senior Information Officer, Volunteering England on Volunteers and the Law. Mark will explain what rights volunteers have, and what rights they can be given - including the minimum wage - if organisations unwittingly create legal relationships with them.
Steven Howlett, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Volunteering Research will be talking about their new toolkit which will help organisations assess the impact of volunteering on volunteers, organisation's service users and the wider community.
Exhibitors:
TAG
36 Victoria Street, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS22 6RE
Fax 01937 580 956
Email tagenquiries@hotmail.com
Web www.telecomsactiongroup.org.uk
Contact Mr Ross Trotter, Secretary
TAG aims to ensure that deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people have access to electronic communication services and facilities at the equivalent cost and with similar ease of use to that enjoyed by hearing people.
National Association of Deafened People
NADP aims to provide a service of information and support for people with a profound, acquired hearing loss. There are local groups in some areas. We also produce a quarterly newsletter 'Network' and various booklets including information on cochlear implants, DLA and communication tips.
NADP, PO Box 50, Amersham, HP6 6XA
Textphone 01227 762879
Voice phone 01227 379538
Fax 01227 379538
Email enquiries@nadp.org.uk
Web www.nadp.org.uk
Contact Ms Gill Hadfield, Secretary
Advanced Bionics
Advanced Bionics creates implantable bionic technologies to benefit people with neural disorders such as deafness.
From the first CLARION multi-channel cochlear implant in 1991 we have advanced to today's HiRes 90K BionicEar implant and Auria sound processor. Our HiResolution technology enables the majority of users, who are severely or profoundly deaf, to hear on the phone and to hold conversations even where there is background noise. The capacity of our implant means they will be able to take advantage of future advances without needing further surgery.
Advanced Bionics UK Ltd, Unit 8, Grain House, Mill Court, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB2 5LD tel: 01223 847 888 / fax: 01223 847898 / email: uk@advancedbionics.com / website: www.bionicear.com and www.ci-4teenz.com
Trustee Induction and Networking Day
Tuesday 15th February 2005
10.30 am - 4.30 pm
Venue: Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JP
For all Chairs, Trustees and Chief Executives of organisations working with deaf people, an opportunity for new trustees to learn about their responsibilities and for experienced trustees to bring their knowledge up to date. A unique opportunity to meet trustees from other organisations working with deaf people and to share experiences with each other.
Governance Essentials: An Introduction to the Roles and Responsibilities
of Trustees
Presented by Emma King, Trustee Training and Development Adviser,
National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Involved in identifying,
promoting and developing best practice in trusteeship and governance for voluntary
organisations, Emma provides advice, information and training to trustees and
governing boards.
Networking: What will it do for me? - Support, Mentoring and Sharing
Good Practice
Presented by Karen Heenan, Executive Director, Charity
Trustee Networks.
CTN exists to support trustees from the voluntary and community sector
to enable them to govern their organisations more effectively.
Finance
Shirley Scott, Chief Executive of Charity Finance Directors'
Group. Covering the financial aspects of being a trustee: Establishing
Financial Controls, Policies and Procedures, Budgets, Reserves, Investment and
Accounting etc.
Establishing the boundary between Governance and Management
Susan Daniels, Chief Executive of NDCS, Chair
of Groundbreakers, Women Leaders in the Voluntary Sector Network, and Vice Chair
of UK Council on Deafness explaining the difference between Governance and Management
and the role of trustees in ensuring how organisations of all sizes can get
the balance right.
Enabling full participation
Martin Redshaw, Chair of Trustees, Royal Association
for Deaf people, based on his experiences as a Trustee for the past
10 years and as a Trustee/Governor of Hamilton Lodge School for the past 26
years, discussing how to structure a Trustee meeting to be accessible to deaf
and hard of hearing participants.
Codes of Conduct - an example of guidelines working in practice
Lindsey Lavender - Executive Director and Peter Howes
- Chair of Trustees, deafPLUS have developed a Trustee Handbook
for new and existing Trustees focusing on protocols to follow. Examples include
terms of reference, areas of special interest, expectations, boundaries, confidentiality,
conflicts of interest.
Secretariat Services
Jonathan Isaac, Director of UK Council on Deafness,
giving details of the services that UKCoD makes available to their members including
access to the Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure service and a full menu of
administrative services.
Exhibitors:
Deaf Broadcasting Council
The DBC is a consumer organisation that campaigns for the rights of deaf and hard of hearing people to equal access to television. The DBC publishes its magazine 'Mailshot' three times yearly, which is available to subscribed members. Members are invited to attend the DBC's Open Forums, which act as a platform for open dialogue between consumers, broadcasters and professionals concerned with the quality of television. The DBC also liaises between affiliates, organisations and deaf people on relevant broadcasting and consumer issues.
Contact Mrs Penny Beschizza, Chair
c/o 50 Clevedon Road, Penge, London, SE20 7QQ
SMS 07970 476285
Fax 07970 150006 or Fax 020 8676 0534
Email pennybes@aol.com
Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers' Group
The Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers' Group campaigns for improvement in deaf mainstream education as a Deaf User-led organisation, and provides support, information, advice and advocacy.
Evans Business Centre, Monckton Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 7AS.
Tel: 01924 888106 / 888115
Fax: 01924 888105
Minicom: 01924 888114 / 888115
Email info@dex.org.uk
Web www.dex.org.uk
Defeating Deafness (Hearing Research Trust)
Defeating Deafness is the UK's only national charity dedicated to helping deaf and hearing impaired people through medical research. Defeating Deafness aims to: encourage and finance research into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of hearing difficulties; educate people about hearing problems and their treatments, offering information and advice based upon the most up to date and reliable evidence available.
Contact Ms Vivienne Michael, Chief Executive
330-332 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8EE
Telephone 020 7833 1733
Textphone 020 7915 1412
Fax 020 7278 0404
Email info@defeatingdeafness.org
Web www.defeatingdeafness.org
Health Promotion for Deaf Communities Conference
Thursday 10th March 2005
10.30 am - 4.30 pm
Venue: Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JP
For health professionals, PCTs, Social Services, project managers and professionals working with deaf and hard of hearing people. A unique opportunity to find out about different methods of delivering health promotion to deaf people.
The London Deaf Healthy Living Centre will provide a range of complementary health services, delivered by a consortium of deaf organisations, alongside a GP surgery fully staffed by medical professionals able to communicate with deaf people. Simon Hesselberg, Project Manager at the Royal Association for Deaf people will explain how this unique service will enable the London PCTs to meet their access obligations.
Carly Munro, Manager of the Scotland Cancer Awareness Project at Deaf Connections in Glasgow, will be talking about how they are raising cancer awareness across the Deaf Community. Paul McCusker, their Heart Health Development Worker works to promote Heart and Stroke prevention awareness and provides accessible information.
Healthy Deaf Minds presented by Roger Hewitt,
Voluntary Coordinator.
Healthy Deaf Minds is a series of talks with the Deaf/BSL community about a
wide range of health issues, particularly in the mental health fields. HDM,
an activity of the British Society for Mental Health Deafness, plan to expand
from London to cover other areas of the UK.
Peter Lavelle, Project Manager, Deafblind Scotland. The Healthy Living for Deafblind People Project, a joint venture by Deafblind Scotland and Sense Scotland, has been working with deafblind people across Scotland to support them in improving their health. Will highlight some successes and challenges of engaging with an often forgotten group of people.
Herbert Klein, DPI Project Manager at SIGN will be making a presentation about the Deaf Patient Involvement Project. Deaf Mentors are recruited and trained and training is offered to volunteers so that they can represent their local Deaf community at Public and Patient Involvement Forums and monitor health services to ensure that deaf people's needs are being met.
Steve Powell, Chief Executive, SIGN presenting the BSL/English Communication Software designed by Sign for use in primary and secondary care settings.
Tina Stewart, Contact Development Co-ordinator in the North East at deafPLUS and Lorna Bailes, service user and a member of staff from the YMCA in North Shields, will be making a joint presentation about the Y-Slim Project. This is a successful 10 week weight management and lifestyle programme designed for the deaf community.
John Walker, Chair of the Brighton and Hove Deaf Equality and Access Forum, has worked with Primary and Social Care to provide a user perspective and develop relevant services through consultation. One of these projects involved creating a fully accessible video which describes how a Deaf person can access everyday services.
Shehla Khan, Assistant Manager at Minority Ethnic Women's Network, will be talking about their health promotion projects amongst the black and ethnic minority communities in Swansea.
Exhibitors:
RNID Typetalk
RNID Typetalk's purpose is to create greater equality in telephone usage for people who are deaf, deafened, deafblind, hard of hearing and speech-impaired. It manages a 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year service from two call centres in Merseyside. It has a team of highly trained Operators who understand the special requirements of textphone users and provide a warm friendly service which is completely confidential.
Voice helpline 0800 7311 888
Text helpline 0800 500 888
website www.typetalk.org
SIGN
Sign: The National Society for Mental Health and Deafness provides services for people who are deaf and have mental health problems. Sign is the national charity for deaf people with mental health problems. Its mission has recently been broadened to promote healthy minds amongst deaf people and empower them to live independently. Sign provides residential and day services, and works to develop skills an confidence, improve quality of live and maximise potential. It also runs SignCare, a recruitment agency for care staff who are experienced in working with d/Deaf people.
5 Baring Road, Beaconsfield, Bucks, HP9 2NB
Tel: 01494 687600
Fax: 01494 687622
Minicom: 01494 687626
Website: www.signcharity.org.uk
Website: www.reachingdeafminds.org.uk
RNID
RNID is the largest charity representing 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. As a membership charity, we aim to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people. We do this by campaigning and lobbying vigorously, by raising awareness of deafness and hearing loss, by providing services and through social, medical and technical research.
Website www.rnid.org.uk
Significan't (UK) Ltd
Promoting new technology initiatives and development of services to maximise opportunities to increase access to services for Deaf people and those working with them
9 Gunnery Terrace, Royal Arsenal, London, SE18 6SW.
Tel: 020 8301 8140 Text: 020 8301 8141 Fax: 020 8301 8141
Email jeff@significant-online.co.uk Web: www.significant-online.co.uk
Deaf People from Overseas Conference
Tuesday 5th April 2005
10.30 am - 4.30 pm
Venue: Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP
Deaf People arriving in a foreign country, whether as Refugees, Asylum Seekers or Students, have unique needs and the challenges they face are made even more complex by the absence of appropriate communication support. This conference aims to highlight some of the issues specific to deaf people from overseas and enable professionals working in Health, Social Services and Education to develop an understanding of ways in which mainstream and specialist organisations can address these issues. Chaired by Asif Iqbal, a Trustee of UK Council on Deafness.
Penny Beschizza, deaf skills lecturer at Southwark College, will outline issues which need to be highlighted for developing good practice and more joined-up services from authorities to ease the tremendous difficulties most BME and overseas deaf people face during their initial stay in the UK. Penny will propose a potential framework to involve the BME communities in the UK to support their deaf members' needs, to be more aware of Sign language users and to advise on benchmarks of language/jargon and access to bureaucracy.
Shafait Aslam and Jackie Powell from the London Ethnic Minority Deaf Association will describe their experiences with various BME Deaf people who visited the LEMDA office for assistance. Focus will be on deaf-friendly approaches in dealing with complex issues experienced by BME Deaf people who have recently arrived in the UK.
Peter Merrifield, Headteacher at Oak Lodge School. Providing a specialist education service for deaf children in London, 80% of pupils at Oak Lodge are from ethnic minority communities, nearly half of whom have arrived in the UK as refugees or asylum seekers. For many of them Oak Lodge is their first experience of education. The school has developed unique strategies for developing their pupils' access to education.
Bharti Patel, Head of Policy, The Refugee Council, the largest organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees, giving them help and support. Bharti Patel will give wide ranging advice and information on services for all refugees and asylum seekers.
Sabina Iqbal, Westminster City Council Social Services, about the difficulties that deaf refugees and asylum seekers face in accessing services, with case studies highlighting the barriers caused by a lack of deaf awareness throughout the legal system, and the issues that face interpreters in working with deaf BME people.
Jane Cook, Nurse Advisor on Social Inclusion with Hillingdon PCT. Having worked with asylum seekers for the past 10 years, Jane will talk about the journey of exile and its impact on the physical and mental health of asylum seekers, how deafness can prevent their access to social and health services and propose solutions to these unique challenges.
Asif Hussain, Project Manager at Asian Disability Network will talk about their joint project with Hearing Concern in Bradford and how they are working for the social inclusion of hard of hearing people of all communities.
Exhibitors:
Asian Deaf Women's Association
c/o RAD West Ham Deaf Community Centre, East Road, Stratford, London, E15 3QR
Telephone 020 8552 1397
Textphone 020 8552 8734
Fax 020 8586 7555
Contact Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq or Yen Lieu
Asian Deaf Women's Association (ADWA) is a 20 years old charity and one of the longest Asian Deaf establishments in UK. It aims to reduce the 'HIDDEN' isolation of the Asian Deaf Women in the society by providing social gatherings and events. The objective of ADWA are to promote the relief of Asian Deaf Women living in London and assisting them to realize their full potential to lead fulfilling lives by the provision of our service.
Deaf People in the Workplace Conference
Tuesday 21st June 2005
10.30 am – 4.30 pm
Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street,
London WC1X 9JP
For Social Services, project managers and professionals working with deaf and hard of hearing people. A unique opportunity to find out about employment issues for deaf people.
Kerry Page and Anne Hollis, Workstep and Access to Work Policy Division, Jobcentre Plus on developments within the Access to Work programme and what this may mean for employers.
Chris Underwood, Head of Campaigns at RNID, on their major new employment campaign and the barriers faced by deaf and hard of hearing people in employment and out of work. The experiences of deaf and hard of hearing people from over 20,000 questionnaires and focus groups, will form the basis of a campaign report.
Graham H. Turner, UCLan will talk about 'Deaf People in the Workplace: Institutionalised Practices'. Jules Dickinson, UCLan/Nottingham Deaf Society will speak on 'Deaf People in the Workplace: Interpreting Issues'. In these two presentations, they aim to present new evidence from a number of UCLan studies which extend from micro-analysis of interaction between Deaf and hearing people in work situations to exploring the 'bigger picture' in terms of fundamental social attitudes and responses to Deaf employment issues.
Reaching Deaf Minds in the Workplace, Susan Grant, Sign's Core Researcher. Enabling deaf people to become great contributors and reach their full potential in the mainstream workplace requires a shift in thinking towards supporting their wellbeing. We need to be working beyond the DDA, beyond Access to Work and giving employers and the NHS the wherewithal to achieve this via a Deaf Charter, covering the wider context of access to health, employment and social equality."
Mark Weston, author of "Working without Hearing" published in association with NADP and LINK will examine what it takes to keep your job or find a new one if you are working when you become profoundly deaf, drawing on the success stories described in his book and showing how employment fits within the overall process of adjusting to profound hearing loss. He will also point to urgently needed improvements in the organisation and funding of key services for deafened people to give them a chance to realise their full potential in workplace.
Laraine Callow, Director Deafworks and Chair of Hearing Concern will talk about Mentoring of Deaf and hard of hearing Professionals and how this can support career development. Laraine will address some of the issues she has encountered in her work and offer some suggestions for promoting good practice in a supportive, empowering and non-threatening but challenging way.
Barbara Seager is the Project Officer for 'Deaf graduates into Employment', an ESF-funded initiative run by the Centre for Access and Communication Studies, University of Bristol. Barbara will demonstrate how Deaf graduates can successfully challenge discrimination and seek suitable employment. She will also ask for your input on future courses.
New Technologies in Communication with Deaf People Conference
This Conference is sponsored by National Association of Deafened People
Tuesday 4th October 2005
10.30 am – 4.30 pm
Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street,
London WC1X 9JP
For Social Services, project managers and professionals working with deaf and hard of hearing people. A unique opportunity to find out about New Technologies in Communication for deaf and hard of hearing people.
Professor Roger K Moore Speech and Hearing Research Group, University of Sheffield on 'Progress, Promises and Prospects for Automatic Speech Recognition'. In the last ten years, R&D into Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has finally begun to deliver usable practical performance across a range of niche applications including voice-based document creation and Interactive Voice Response (IVR). This has come about as a result of a number of factors: the relentless increase in available computing power, the introduction of hidden Markov modeling (HMM) and a greater awareness of the need for formal system evaluation protocols. This talk will review the progress and promises offered by ASR, and will speculate on the future prospects based on the collected view of the ASR R&D community.
Martin Davies will be providing a talk on how BBC Broadcast is using Speech Recognition technology to provide subtitles on realtime television programmes.
Frances Dobson on Professional Realtime Voicewriting. Voicewriter’s standards, products and services.
Tabitha Allum and Phil Nicolaou, STAGETEXT on recent advances in captioning technology. STAGETEXT has been delivering captioning for arts venues such as theatres for five years. The current system is effective and relatively economical. Recent advances in technology, such as voice recognition, have opened up the possibility of being able to more readily satisfy the needs of a wider group of both venues and audiences. This paper summarises the development work that STAGETEXT and others in the field have been undertaking in making arts and entertainment venues more accessible.
Marian Nash from The Deaf Children’s Communication Aids Provision (DCCAP) will be offering a presentation on how technology can help pupils understand; speak; write and access the curriculum. The DCCAP has been identifying ICT equipment to meet the needs of individual deaf pupils of school age who live in England who have been referred to the Communication Aids Project (CAP). The Government fund this project through the DfES and it is managed by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta). DCCAP is a joint initiative between the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) and Deafax.
Professor Jim Kyle from the Deaf Studies Trust on the use of video technology to provide information and for direct person-to-person communication for elderly deaf people.
Sgt Glen Barham, Police Link Officer for Deaf People, Hampshire (PLOD). 999. One, free, national, easy to remember number for all? Not if you're deaf. Hampshire Constabulary have introduced a speed-text non-registration mobile text number for deaf people and speech impaired people in Hampshire & Isle of Wight and they are now working with Government and phone companies to create one, free, national, easy to remember number for all. Sgt Glen Barham will explain the current Hampshire based system and how this will hopefully be expanded nationally.
Exhibitors:
RNID Typetalk
RNID Typetalk's purpose is to create greater equality in telephone usage for people who are deaf, deafened, deafblind, hard of hearing and speech-impaired. It manages a 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year service from two call centres in Merseyside. It has a team of highly trained Operators who understand the special requirements of textphone users and provide a warm friendly service which is completely confidential.
Voice helpline 0800 7311 888
Text helpline 0800 500 888
website www.typetalk.org
Significan't
Promoting new technology initiatives and development of services to maximise opportunities to increase access to services for Deaf people and those working with them
9 Gunnery Terrace, Royal Arsenal, London, SE18 6SW.
Tel: 020 8301 8140 Text: 020 8301 8141 Fax: 020 8301 8141
Email jeff@significant-online.co.uk
Web: www.significant-online.co.uk
BT
Promoting a serivice and continuing to develop and innovate products to further a belief that communications make a difference to the quality of peoples lives.
Website: www.bt.com
National Association Deafened People
NADP aims to provide a service of information and support for people with a profound, acquired hearing loss. There are local groups in some areas. We also produce a quarterly newsletter 'Network' and various booklets including information on cochlear implants, DLA and communication tips.
PO Box 50, Amersham, HP6 6XB
Textphone 01227 762879
Voice phone 01227 379538
Fax 01227 379538
Email enquiries@nadp.org.uk
Web www.nadp.org.uk
Contact Ms Gill Hadfield, Secretary
Teletec International Ltd
Cranfield Innovation Centre, University Way, Cranfield Technology Park, Cranfield,
Bedfordshire, MK43 0BT
Contact Christopher Jones
Tel 01234 756026
Text 01234 756027
Fax 01234 756028
Email christopher@teletec.co.uk
Web www.teletec.co.uk
Cued Speech Association UK
Cued Speech makes all the sounds of speech visible by using eight handshapes
in four positions near the mouth to complement the lip-shapes of normal speech.
Deaf people can then 'see' the phonemes of spoken language that hearing people
hear. This allows deaf children to develop their inner language, improve literacy,
lipreading and speech. It can also help deafened people to communicate in English
and D-deaf people improve their English. It is compatible with both aural/oral
approaches and with the use of sign language. The Cued Speech Association UK
provides information about and training in Cued Speech
9 Duke Street, Dartmouth, Devon, TQ6 9PY
Telephone 01803 832 784
Textphone 01803 832 784
Fax 01803 835 311
Email info@cuedspeech.co.uk
Web www.cuedspeech.co.uk
RNID
RNID is the largest charity representing 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. As a membership charity, we aim to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people. We do this by campaigning and lobbying vigorously, by raising awareness of deafness and hearing loss, by providing services and through social, medical and technical research.
Website www.rnid.org.uk
This Conference is sponsored by National Association of Deafened People
2nd Annual Deafness Conference
Tuesday 1st November 2005
10.30 am – 4.30 pm
Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street,
London WC1X 9JP
The second Annual Deafness Conference is an opportunity for all professionals
working with deaf people to meet and network with colleagues and to gain a greater
understanding of developments taking place across the country and across the
spectrum of deafness. Delegates last year commented:
“A great networking opportunity and a chance to learn about new projects”
“Opportunity to meet and chat with other people from the sector. Get updates
on other activities. Chance to publicise our own work”“Great to hear about all
that UKCoD is doing. Encouragement and enthusiasm to take things forward in
our area and determination to network and co-work more with other organisations”
Keynote Address: Richard Gutch, Chief Executive of Futurebuilders
England. Futurebuilders is a £125M Home Office backed investment
fund for developing the capacity of the Voluntary and Community Sector to deliver
public services. Futurebuilders aims to improve public service delivery through
long-term investment in the community and voluntary sector by providing a combination
of loan and grant finance together with support to help organisations build
their capacity and increase their effectiveness.
Conference Debate: The Deaf Centre in the 21st Century. Chaired
by Bryan Sheppard, Chief Executive of BID Services
with Deaf People. Deaf Centres have been the traditional heart of local
deaf communities since the 19th Century. A place for deaf clubs to meet and
from which services are provided. Some of the buildings still date from that
time and many need to adapt to meet the changing needs of the modern deaf communities.
Bryan will present the plans BID have to build a new Deaf Cultural Centre in
Birmingham made possible by a £2.5m investment from Futurebuilders.
Supporting presentations include:
Lucy Drescher, Campaigns Officer at Sense. Sense has done a survey of deafblind people and their families to find out about their experiences of using technology in their everyday lives. The Make Technology Work report highlights the good and bad experiences that deafblind people have had of using assistive equipment and household products and makes recommendations to designers, manufacturers, retailers, social services and government on making sure their products and services are right for deafblind people.
Maria Priestley, Research Project Manager at The LINK Centre for Deafened People. Presenting the findings of a three-year study on the psychosocial impact of becoming totally deaf as an adult carried out by the LINK Centre for Deafened People and Greenwich University. The results show a serious impact on mental health (for both the deafened person and their partner), communication, relationships, and employment. They also demonstrate a generally poor level of service provision for this group of people.
Anne Marie Hall, Deputy Director of UK Services at National Deaf Children’s Society. The Informed Choice project is being undertaken by the NDCS and University of Manchester. The aim of the project, which is funded by DfES Early Support, is to develop policy and practice guidelines for professionals working with families of deaf children as well as resources for parents.
Jonathan Isaac, Director of UK Council on Deafness, will provide an overview of the work being done to support organisations working with deaf people, including details of the latest round of grants available from the Opportunities for Volunteering Scheme
Exhibitors:
Cued Speech Association UK
Cued Speech makes all the sounds of speech visible by using eight handshapes
in four positions near the mouth to complement the lip-shapes of normal speech.
Deaf people can then 'see' the phonemes of spoken language that hearing people
hear. This allows deaf children to develop their inner language, improve literacy,
lipreading and speech. It can also help deafened people to communicate in English
and D-deaf people improve their English. It is compatible with both aural/oral
approaches and with the use of sign language. The Cued Speech Association UK
provides information about and training in Cued Speech
9 Duke Street, Dartmouth, Devon, TQ6 9PY
Telephone 01803 832 784
Textphone 01803 832 784
Fax 01803 835 311
Email info@cuedspeech.co.uk
Web www.cuedspeech.co.uk
Deaf Essential Ltd
Throughout the range of different services that we offer, our aim is always the same - improving access.
We help to improve access for the Deaf community by providing CACDP or ASLI registered interpreters - and we improve access to the Deaf community by training people in British Sign Language (BSL), Deaf awareness and our translation and media service.
The Bentley Centre, Stratton Road, Swindon, Wilts, SN1 2SH
Contact Dawn Preston
Tel 01793 690644
Text 01793 690645
Fax 01793 690645
Email office@deafessential.co.uk
Web www.deafessential.co.uk
The Forest Bookshop
The Forest Bookshop is the world leader as a source for Books, videos, and
CD-ROMs on deafness and deaf issues. They produce a free 64 page colour catalogue
twice yearly and maintain a very comprehensive website on www.forestbooks.com.
They also publish under the name of Douglas McLean Publishing and two important
forthcoming titles are the follow-up to 'Being Deaf: 'Deaf Identities' edited
by Ann Derby and George Taylor, and a reprinted edition of 'Equality Before
the Law - Deaf People's Access to Justice' edited by Mary Brennan and Richard
Brown.
Email forest@forestbooks.com Web www.forestbooks.com
Deafworks
Deafworks is a Deaf-led business dedicated to advising, supporting and empowering the Deaf Community and those who work with them. For fifteen years our aim has always been to deliver high quality and pioneering courses, projects, advice and workshops in Deaf Awareness, Deaf-hearing integration, Deaf management and assertiveness skills, Communication skills and British Sign Language to individuals and organisations in the commercial, voluntary, arts and statutory sectors.
59 Banner Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1Y 8PX.
Contact Nicholas Callow
Tel 020 7689 0033
Text 020 7689 1048
Fax 020 7689 1049
Email general@deafworks.co.uk
Web www.deafworks.co.uk
Hearing Concern
Hearing Concern is a national charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for those who are hard of hearing.
We are a volunteer led organisation whose main objectives are to provide advice, information and support, to promote communication access and to raise public and professional awareness of the issues associated with hearing loss.
4th Floor, 275 - 281 King Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9LZ
Telephone 020 8233 2929
Textphone 020 8233 2934
Fax 020 8233 2934
Email info@hearingconcern.org.uk
Web www.hearingconcern.org.uk
HelpDesk: 0845 0744 600 'lo call' voice & text
Open Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm.
Contact Mr Damian Barry, Chief Executive
Promoting Achievement in Deaf Young People Conference
Tuesday 22nd November 2005
10.30 am – 4.30 pm
Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street,
London WC1X 9JP
For education professionals in specialist schools and HI Units, youth workers, social workers, project managers and professionals working with young deaf people. A unique opportunity to find out about initiatives from across the UK taking place in schools and community groups to promote achievement for deaf young people and to network with colleagues.
Conference Co-Chairs: Susan Daniels, Chief Executive of the National Deaf Children’s Society and Paul Simpson, Secretary of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf.
Presentations include:
Anne Marie Hall, Deputy Director UK Services (Education, Health and Social Care) at NDCS will set the scene with a presentation entitled "The achievements of young deaf people: past, present and future"
Alison Weaver, President Elect of BATOD, a teacher of the Deaf and the Sensory and Physical Team Leader, within the Inclusive Education Service for Nottingham City LEA. The BATOD Survey is an important tool used by NDCS, RNID, BATOD and ToD course providers to support campaigns and demonstrates the importance of gathering information concerning the education and the attainment of deaf children and young people.
Ernst Thoutenhoofd, Researcher at the Scottish Sensory Centre, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh on the Achievements of Deaf Pupils in Scotland (ADPS) project, set up in 2000 to collect detailed information about deaf pupils and their achievements, the only annual, national, longitudinal database of deaf children in Europe. The ADPS project has at its centre a National Survey of all deaf pupils, covering a range of variables such as placement, hearing loss and examination results. The ADPS have ambitions to expand the geographical coverage to the whole of the UK.
Sean Noone and Taylor Capewell, two young deaf people from Birmingham, will share their achievements having been involved in many diverse and challenging projects, including being the first deaf members of the UK Youth Parliament, and a Youth Advisor on the UNICEF Youth Board.
Richard Linley, Operations Manager Curriculum at Derby College. Derby College-Deaf Access has evolved from a specialist college to mainstream college specialism, supporting both National and regional students. The benefits from working within a mainstream college have yielded very positive academic results and nurtured students with the experience and confidence of learning and the development of social skills.
Robin Ash, Senior Deaf Education Instructor at Frank Barnes School a sign bilingual primary school for deaf children situated in the London Borough of Camden with children who come from authorities across the Greater London area. 50% of pupils are from minority ethnic groups with English as a second language and 31% of children have additional SEN.
Deborah Carter, Headteacher at Ovingdean Hall School for Deaf Children in Brighton, a non-maintained, non-selective, special school serving Local Education Authorities across the country, providing a specialised teaching approach which, with the latest hearing technology, maximises children's potential for spoken language.
Cheryll Ford, Principal at Royal School for the Deaf Derby where the Post 16 Department have developed a transition programme to guide deaf young people into full time education, training at college or training provider or work, sometimes with additional support and with a strong emphasis on independence.
The programme will also include examples of community based projects in mainstream and specialist Youth Clubs and input from the SEN Division at the DfES and Ofsted on how their activities acknowledge the unique challenges for deaf young people and promote their achievement.
Exhibiters:
Teletec International Ltd
Cranfield Innovation Centre, University Way, Cranfield Technology Park, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0BT
Contact Christopher Jones
Tel 01234 756026
Text 01234 756027
Fax 01234 756028
Email christopher@teletec.co.uk
Web www.teletec.co.uk
The Ear Foundation
The Ear Foundation was established in 1989 to encourage the innovative technology of cochlear implantation, offering useful hearing to profoundly deaf children. About 1,900 children in the UK now use cochlear implants and they need continued support.
A hospital-based programme alone cannot meet the needs of these children and their families. In its new Children's Cochlear Implant Centre, the Ear Foundation uniquely bridges the gap between the work of the specialist clinic and the child's community, where the implant will be used in everyday communication. There is a full programme of parent, family and professionals courses throughout the year.
The Ear Foundation, Majorie Sherman House, 83 Sherwin Road, Lenton, Nottingham, NG7 2FB.
Tel: 0115 942 1985, Text: 0115 942 1985, Fax 0115 924 9054.
Email brian@earfoundation.org.uk Web www.earfoundation.org.uk
NDCS
15 Dufferin Street, London, EC1Y 8UR
Telephone 020 7490 8656
Freephone helpline: 0808 800 8880
Textphone 020 7490 8656
Fax 020 7251 5020
Email helpline@ndcs.org.uk
Web www.ndcs.org.uk
The National Deaf Children's Society is the only UK charity providing a comprehensive range of support and services to all deaf children and their families. The NDCS provides clear balanced information and advice on audiology, technology, education and welfare benefits. The NDCS also has a network of regional support groups. If you prefer to use a spoken language other than English, tell the adviser in English the language of your choice and your telephone number. Within a few minutes you will be called back via an interpreter.
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