by Peter Spriggs | May 3, 2024 9:18AM | Campaigns - Deaf Awareness
An alarming official study has shown deaf people were more than 1.3 times as likely to die with Covid during the pandemic. This figure, in a report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), is after adjusting for other factors that could increase a person’s risk...
by Harriet Scott | May 2, 2024 7:23PM | Campaigns - Deaf Awareness
According to a National Deaf Children’s Society report in 2023, 77% of Deaf school-aged children in the UK are in mainstream schools with UK Charity Feel the Music stating that d/Deaf children are often removed from mainstream music lessons due to a lack of resources...
by Charlotte Gollogly | May 2, 2024 2:43PM | Campaigns - Deaf Awareness
Two-fifths of people who are deaf or have hearing loss have been affected by mental health issues – compared with a quarter of the hearing population, according to new statistics. The effects of not being able to communicate easily can often have a big impact....
by Aleksandra Zolczynska | May 2, 2024 1:28PM | Campaigns - Deaf Awareness
One in three people who are Deaf or suffer from hearing loss say they have had difficulties accessing services or faced a long wait for an appointment. Around 12 million adults in the UK are Deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus, according to the Royal National...
by Joseph Gilbert | May 2, 2024 12:26PM | Campaigns - Deaf Awareness
After widespread closures of specialist deaf schools, mainstream schools and councils have had to adapt learning environments to support the needs of more than 50,000 deaf children in the UK. But with budgets being slashed and an increasing scarcity of resources, deaf...
