Nicole Campbell, DPUK Coordinator will be giving a presentation about DPUK at the Lewisham Sign Language Community Group meeting. The meeting will be held at:
St George’s Church Hall
Vancouver Road/Woolstone Road
Forest Hill
London SE23
From 7pm-9pm
Free refreshment provided, for more information please contact Jessica Wilde
Email: Queen79@yahoo.com
UKCOD is holding their 4th Annual Deafness conference at UCU Conference Centre, in King’s Cross, London.DPUK will exhibit their 1st supporting presentation at the UKCOD Annual conference and look forward to the opportunity of meeting all professionals working with deaf people and networking to gain a greater understanding of developments taking place across the country.
Check out the website on www.deafcouncil.org.uk for more information about UKCOD.
Team HaDo, a new BSL/English translation service, are keen to explore whether our services could be of use to Deaf parents and carers in untangling the mountain of paperwork that kids bring home from school. We are NOT an interpreting service, but can quickly translate letters/reports into BSL for you (onto DVD) and you can dictate your reply to us in BSL and we’ll write it up in English for you.
This service is not free, but we feel that London Education Authorities should fund this sort of access through their equality budgets, and we would be happy to work with you to persuade them to do so.
Email: team@teamhado.com
SMS: 07890 148555
Web: www.teamhado.com
DPUK have purchased tickets available FREE to hearing children of Deaf Parents and Deaf children of Hearing parents, living in Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham & Southwark.
‘Clownderella’ is a clown who liked telling a certain fairy story. Join Krazy Kat in clowning silliness, with colourful costumes, puppetry, dances etc.
A fully signed performance suitable for deaf children and hearing children of deaf parents age 3 -10yrs.
11am, at:
Warehouse Theatre
Dingwall Road
Croydon
CR0 2NF
Tickets are limited, First Come First Serve Basis.
Deadline for ticket requests, subject to availability
12 NOON on FRIDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2007.
For ticket availability – Contact DPUK Coordinator
Deaf Parenting UK will have an exhibition information stall at the RAD Deaf Ethnic Cultural Mela. The event is held at Eastbury Comprehensive School, Rosslyn Road, Barking IG11 9UH from 10am – 4pm. The daytime event is free for anyone wishing to attend and there will be other exhibitions with information in BSL for deaf people and taster workshop giving people opportunities to try activities hands on.
The evening event runs from 6pm to 10pm. This will include a two-hour show from a range of different performers, and delicious cultural foods will be provided. Tickets sold in advance costs £10.00 for Adults and £6.00 for OAP/Children. Tickets £15 at door.
For more information, please contact Mela Coordinator:
Email: mela@royaldeaf.org.uk
SMS: 07749 965742 / 07738 802688
If you are interested in BSL rich learning environment for your baby/young child, please contact us.
Frank Barnes School
Harley Road
Camden
NW3 3BN
Telephone: 0207 586 4665
Fax: 0207 722 4415
Email: admin@fbarnes.camden.sch.uk
Deaf Parenting UK (DPUK) new website is now launched!
Some areas of this website are still under construction and will be fully complete very soon. Please bear with us while we continually update and add new features to make the website as useful and enjoyable for you as possible.
We hope you enjoy browsing the new website and please let us know what you think by contacting us or leaving a comment in our message board.
The Deaf Parenting UK (DPUK) Team
Sabina, Chair of Deaf Parenting UK, attended the 15th World Congress of the WFD (World Federation for the Deaf) in Madrid, capital of Spain.
The theme of the congress was ‘Sign Languages and Human Rights’, looking at various areas that affect Deaf people’s life ranging from Human rights, linguistic & culture; Sign Languages; Education; Technology; Mental Health; Women, CODA, Youth, Older people, Deafblind people, BME (Black & minorities ethnic) communities and many more.
Sabina, Chair of Deaf Parenting UK and Markku Jokinen, WFD President
Sabina have been networking with so many people on local, national and international level and met Markku Jokinen, President of the World Federation of the Deaf during the conference, highlighting the needs of Deaf parents and pressing for Deaf parents to be recognised as a key priority for WFD in the same way as CODA, Women, Youth, Education and Mental health.
Sabina also recognised the uniqueness of Deaf Parenting UK as a national organisation in UK. She checked with other countries and there were none like DPUK apart from small projects here and there, but not a formal organisation of Deaf parents for Deaf parents. It shows on how important for Deaf Parenting UK to present itself as a good model for other countries across the world on enabling confidence, supporting and empowering Deaf parents.
The next congress will take place in Durban, South Africa in 2011. Watch this space.
The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) is an international non-governmental organisation comprising national associations of Deaf people. It watches over the interests of more than 74 million Deaf people worldwide -more than 80% of them live in developing countries, where authorities are rarely familiar with their needs or desires.
The WFD was founded in 1951, during the First World Congress of the WFD, held in Rome. Such an early date makes the WFD one of the oldest international disability organisations in the world.
Currently, the WFD has a membership of 127 national associations from the five continents worldwide.
Recognised by the United Nations (UN) as their spokes-organisation, WFD works closely with the UN and its various agencies in promoting the human rights of Deaf people in accordance with the principles and objectives of the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other general acts and recommendations of the UN and its specialised agencies. When necessary, WFD uses special, legal or administrative measures to ensure that Deaf people in every country have the right to preserve their own sign languages, organisations, and cultural and other activities.
WFD have national members from 127 countries, of which each representing their country. National members convene in a General Assembly every four years in conjunction with the World Congress.
The General Assembly elects the Board and approves the WFD action plan for the following four years. The Board is the responsible body for implementing those policies approved by the General Assembly.
WFD activities are conducted according to these principles:
The importance of the WFD is vital since it allows cohesion among all entities of Deaf people in the world. Likewise, this organisation strives for solidarity towards millions of Deaf people from Countries whose political and economic situation deprives them from exercising their rights to sign language; and equal opportunity in all spheres of life, including access to education and information…
For these reasons, all Deaf people must become acquainted with WFD work and support it, because it is through union and commitment that we will get a freer world.
The principle of Human Rights and sign language means that at local level, we need to work together to ensure that Deaf parents have access to education, parenting information and enjoy their human rights as Deaf person and as a parent where they are entitled to enjoy family lives and need to have access to information/services without any barriers and discrimination.
Rounders match for Deaf Adults & Entertainment for young children. The day turned out to be successful despite the occasional torrential rain, which did not hinder the children’s enjoyment and approximately 30 Deaf parents/adults and 20 children attended.
The children were delighted with the Kid’s entertainment which took place inside a large gazebo, consisting of a ‘Clown’ who proved very popular in story telling, singing and dancing, balloon modelling, face painting, fun and games etc
A Very Big Thank you to all of you that attended the fun day and making it such a great day!
Please click on the link below to view / download the DPUK Annual Report 2005/6:
DPUK Annual Report 2006 (PDF file)
The DPUK Team
