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Category Archives: Deaf & Hard of Hearing
25% of Buses are to provide Audio-Visual information!
On Tuesday the MP for Chatham and Aylesford, Tracey Crouch who had written a question received the answer from Richard Holden who is a Minister from the Department of Transport and the response was very interesting. We now need the … Continue reading
Posted in Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Audio Visual, audio-visual, Richard Holden, Tracey Crouch
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Audible and Visible provision on buses and trains?
On Monday last week there was a response to a written question from the Conservative MP from East Yorkshire, Greg Knight who had focused on “visually-impaired and hard of hearing passengers”. The Minister who responded was Richard Holden who is … Continue reading
Posted in Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Network Rail, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged audio-visual, Greg Knight, Richard Holden
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Visual, Hearing, & Multi-Sensory impaired children
Yesterday in the House of Commons, the Sussex MP from Battle and Bexhill called Huw Merriman asked a very significant question about how the Government will respond to the needs for deaf children. The response from the Government was very … Continue reading
British Sign Language Bill – second reading
It was fantastic that on Friday in the House of Commons the Bill was approved at its second reading. The author of the Bill is Rosie Cooper who is the Labour MP for West Lancashire and there were a significant … Continue reading
Several Sussex MPs need to focus on Disability provision
Over the last few weeks an vital theme emerged from Parliament through the Conservative MP from Daventry who is one of the Ministers of State for the Department for Transport. Chris Heaton-Harris is part of a team who work under … Continue reading
British Sign Language needs a public response
On Monday there was a response from Nick Gibb to a written question set out by Daisy Cooper who is the Liberal Democratic Education spokesperson. The question related to British Sign Language (BSL) in education settings. Although that question did … Continue reading
Zoom and Shari Eberts deserve applause – can Team do it?
A person I have had the pleasure to connect with via social media is Shari Eberts who is an American person who campaigns for people like her who are deaf. My interest in connecting with Shari is because of the … Continue reading
MPs in Parliament must use appropriate face masks appropriately
Earlier this week a couple of senior Parliamentary people referred to the wearing of face masks in the House of Commons. This followed the call at the beginning of the return to Parliament this year from the Speaker of the … Continue reading
It is vital for Rotary to support Black Lives Matter
A few years ago I had the opportunity to work alongside Dave King on the theme of Hearing Loops. He was working for a charity called Hearing Link that had was developing loop up groups and that included groups in … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Immigration
Tagged Black Lives Matter, Dave King, Groucho Marx, Karl Marx, Rotary International
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Do people with hearing loss get treated as a low priority?
I work for a company that designs and installs hearing loops in buildings for use by members of the public. We specialise in that area of work although we do a much wider range of installations that relate to audio … Continue reading
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