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February 2007 NDCS Deaf Friendly Football Project
A project designed to make football more accessible to deaf children in the south west has been launched by the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) and the Football Foundation. The NDCS Deaf Friendly Football Project, funded by the Football Foundation,...
Get fit for the RNID Great North Run
The RNID is calling on people to get a head start in the race for a guaranteed place at this year’s Great North Run by signing up for the charity’s running team.The places in RNID’s Great North Run team are...
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Make a stand for cinema equipment
Deaf and blind people in Scotland are being urged to petition cinemas for better facilities after the film theatres failed to get connected. No cinemas have yet taken Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council up on lat year's promise...
Raising Awareness of Tinnitus
Did you know that 10 per cent of people in the UK have had tinnitus at some time in their life? To raise awareness of what tinnitus is, how it can be managed and what help is available The Royal...
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Brits neglect hearing
A survey for Hearing Clearer Awareness Month shows that eight out of ten of us - 48 million Brits - neglect our hearing, and one in seven of us suffers hearing loss. According to Deafness Research UK, this means that...
Sign language dance routines are internet hit
A series of pop music videos for deaf people posted on the top video-sharing website YouTube have shot an unemployed ex-roofer to internet fame. 43-year-old Tyrone Whittle started performing his sign-language dance routines after a life-long interest in using movement...
Proclaimers voted 'Sound of Scotland'
The Proclaimers have been voted the 'Sound of Scotland' in a poll by RNID Scotland. The charity had asked people to put forward their favourite Scottish sound as part of its Breaking the Sound Barrier campaign, which aims to change...
2007 Winter Deaflympics
The 16th Winter Deaflympics are now well and truly underway. Founded in 1924, the Deaflympics is the second oldest international multi-cultural sports event in the world, surpassed only by the Olympic Games which were founded in 1894. This year the...
CI developer to help paraplegics walk again
Professor Graeme Clark, the Melbourne scientist who pioneered the cochlear imlpant, is developing a spinal cord implant to help paraplegics walk again. The spinal cord implant relies on the same bionic technology that has restored the sensation of heairng to...
NDCS weekend in Northern Ireland
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) is holding a weekend for families with a deaf child at the Manor House Hotel, in Fermanagh from 17-19th November. The weekend will bring together families from across Northern Ireland, who have recently found...
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