Today, we joined National Deaf Children's Society RNID and The Deaf Health Charity SignHealth at a parliamentary event hosted by Catherine Atkinson MP to spotlight the barriers faced by the Deaf community. Catherine Atkinson MP and Minister for Disabled People Stephen Timms gave powerful speeches, and the event provided a fantastic opportunity to network with MPs and share the vital work we do | British Deaf Association

Want to improve your deaf awareness and looking for some tips to get you started? We asked colleagues from across the National Deaf Children’s Society, both hearing and deaf, to find out what their deaf awareness tips are when working with deaf colleagues 🙌 Check out all our tips here. #DeafAwareness #DeafAwarenessWeek #Deafness #Deaf | National Deaf Children's Society

Having good deaf awareness is important when interacting with deaf young people. See our video on what to do and not to do to improve your deaf awareness, from our Buzz Content Creators! The Buzz (NDCS) 👥 | National Deaf Children's Society

Don’t just take our word for it, improving deaf awareness is not only important to us, but to lots of deaf young people we work with. In this video, deaf young people share the one thing they wish they could change about people’s deaf awareness. #DeafAwareness #DeafAwarenessWeek #DAW2023 #Deafness | National Deaf Children's Society

Earlier this week, Mike Hobday, our Director of Policy and Campaigns, gave evidence to the House of Commons Education Committee. Immediate investment in more Teachers of the Deaf would make a huge difference to supporting the education of every deaf child. #SENDInTheSpecialists | National Deaf Children's Society

We gave evidence to not one, but two, House of Commons Committees this week! We were very pleased to be invited to the Women and Equalities Committee yesterday to talk about deaf young people moving into work. This was part of the Committee’s inquiry into the Government’s National Disability Strategy. Martin, our Senior Policy Advisor, talked about making sure that deaf young people know about the support and reasonable adjustments they’re entitled to in the workplace. Because with the right sup

Earlier today our friends at the National Deaf Children’s Society Scotland shared a video and asked everyone what animals were being described… It was of course our primates. In the video below you will see a short clip of our ring-tailed lemurs, followed by our lar gibbons in their indoor area and last but not least one of our beautiful Debrazza monkeys. FSZ would like to wish everyone a happy Deaf Awareness Week and look forward to teaming up with NDCS Scotland on an exciting new BSL video inf