Teacher of the Deaf | Deaf | Occasional Lipreader/Actress/Presenter/Writer | President Elect @BATOD_UK. Personal views only
Sep 20, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
@RoseAylingEllis being on @bbcstrictly is so important for raising Deaf Awareness, but more importantly for #BSL . So many parents focus on speech (understandably) when they find out their baby is deaf 1/
They suddenly think, how will my deaf child communicate with the world? The world is hearing, not deaf. If they use #BSL they will never fit in the “real world” and it will “close” opportunities to them, they only remain in the “Deaf world”. 2/
Feb 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The sound used to exemplify a hearing loss on #EastEnders was an excellent move. Look at t’comments from hearing people complaining re. sound. They experienced that for 30 seconds at most?! We experience the lack of subtitles / accessibility on a regular daily basis 1/
As for some of us, we have been deaf since birth/since childhood. Deafness not always something that needs to be cured/fixed. Can totally appreciate gg deaf as a teen/adult v disjointing. If deafness/BSL was celebrated & embraced, maybe attitudes would be different 3/
