Family Sign Language Course

What:  A course to support your family to learn skills in how to communicate every day at home. This includes some British Sign Language (BSL).

Who:  Parents and carers with a child under the age of five with a hearing loss.

Where: Glasgow, Sense Scotland, 43 Middlesex Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow, G41 1EE

When: Saturday 10am – 1pm

Starts 28^th April 2012 for 6 weeks

Where:  Inverness Hilton Community Centre, Oldtown Road, Inverness, IV2 4HT

When:  Friday 10am – 12pm

Starts 20^th April 2012 for 10 weeks

Contact and registration:

JOANNE O'DONNELL

Early Years Development Worker
The National Deaf Children's Society

2nd Floor, Empire House, 131 West Nile Street, Glasgow, G1 2RX

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telephone: 0141 354 7856 (voice)

mobile: 07772081452 (voice & text)

switchboard 0141 354 7850 (voice)

textphone 0141 332 6133

fax: 0141 331 2780

www.ndcs.org.uk

Normal working hours, Mon to Fri 8.30 am to 4.30 pm

BME Families Information Day - media coverage !

Edinburgh Evening News has now featured the story about the first information day for BME families of deaf children. The website attracts 275,368 unique readers per month.

http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/health/ethnic-groups-get-deaf-help-1-2163532

Lothian Life, an online county magazine for Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian and Midlothian, has also covered the story; the page with the story has so far been visited 86 times.

http://www.lothianlife.co.uk/2012/03/support-for-deaf-children-from-black-and-ethnic-minority-families/

BME Information Day - Edinburgh

Scottish Minority Deaf Children’s Society (SMDCS) is organising a BME Information Day for families in the Edinburgh and Lothian’s area in partnership with the NDCS. The event will be held on the 17th of March.

The event is aimed at the BME families from the area and will host guest speakers. We have confirmed , an audiologist and a teacher of deaf who will be speaking to the parents on the day and also two young deaf role models from Ingrid’s ‘Who Am I’ project.

There will also be a parents panel , who will talk about their experiences of having a deaf child. There will be language interpreters as required so that families can access information in a language they understand.

Please return the forms to The National Deaf Children’s Society, 131 West Nile Street, 2^nd Floor, Empire House, Glasgow, G1 2RX by 20^th of February 2012.

Please find the details of the event over here. 

Read more: BME Information Day - Edinburgh

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