History & Aims of DPUK

Following her research in USA and UK on the gaps in services for Deaf parents and Deaf parents to be, Sabina Iqbal (Chair of DPUK) established Deaf parenting Project under the DPPi, which later became independent as Deaf Parenting UK in 2001.

Made up of interested organisations and individuals to provide a forum to discuss Deaf parenting issues, Deaf Parenting UK has been operating for the past six years.

Following a lack of interest from mainstream Deaf organisations in developing a range of projects and programmes to work with Deaf parents, a decision was made in October 2004 to become a registered charity as an independent organisation and to seek funding to deliver a range of programmes/ services targeted at Deaf parents.