Currently the International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED) is taking place in Vancouver. The conference website can be found here. A statement was put forward to the congress, on Milan 1880. [...] more »

I think this is an important question which the Deaf community doesn't want to answer because such an answer would be extremely difficult. We complain about schools closing, but there is little proactive thought, based in historical analysis, on what would be a practical future for Deaf schools, and why. [...] more »

And you still claim you're not political, or not bothered?... [...] more »

Sometimes I wonder why all the effort in Deaf education is spent towards getting Deaf children to speak. It often doesn't matter. Your voice can be a rich patina of textured sound. [...] more »

You can't split up the two. A Deaf child cannot get an education in a public school without an A.S.L. interpreter of some sort. The shame is that the Deaf child's interpreting needs are attacked on all sides! [...] more »

Deaf children's education or rather the standards, has been a subject that has been buried under the carpet by consecutive governments. Its a subject that plays like a broken record, and the same mistakes made decade after decade, with... [...] more »

On the 18 December (I've not had time to blog!) a question was tabled in parliament over deaf education: Mark Harper (Forest of Dean, Conservative) To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what guidance is... [...] more »

We've previously blogged about the possible closure of Frank Barnes. This situation is now becoming more urgent, and it seems that Deaf children are being sidelined for other initiatives. The latest campaign e mail is copied below, which explains the... [...] more »

A recent question was tabled in parliament around the cost of deaf education, and secondly the effectiveness of the appeal process. Ian Gibson (Norwich North, Labour) (1) what estimate he has made of the amount spent on the education of... [...] more »

I came across this site woman’s hour about Improving the Teaching of Deaf Children One in 1000 babies are born profoundly deaf every year and only 2% of these children leave school with a reading level appropriate to their age. After a long career in the education of deaf children, Dr Diana Burman has undertaken pioneering research [...] [...] more »

I found out from someone who is a member of DUK (Deaf-UK a yahoo maling list forum) that someone who did a corpus based study called The influence of British Sign Language on Deaf English. Many deaf people are quite sensitive about someone analysing their English and would not want someone to make a research out [...] [...] more »

Frank Barnes is a bilingual primary school based in north London, specifically in the London Borough of Camden. The school was previously awarded beacon status for high performing schools (scheme now phrased out). The London Borough of Camden wants to... [...] more »

Yesterday's debate in parliament made reference to the use of BSL in schools. Madeleine Moon (Bridgend, Labour) May we have a debate on the increased teaching and use of British Sign Language? Last week I visited Archdeacon John Lewis primary... [...] more »