My brothers ex wife is partially deaf and is currently a peripatetic teacher with speech and sign language in Kent. Her kids have learnt sign language as it’s a good thing to do. What I think must be difficult is trying to communicate with and teach sign language to the kids who don’t have much English and whose parents have even less. Not sure where I’d be able to start with that!
It is a wonderful thing to do, I hope they get to use it to benefit the wider community. All Deaf kids have little or no English to begin with so the difficulty is associating the English words for visual things. Peter Kay & his 'drink? drink? Dya wanna drink' or 'phone! Phone! Phone for you' gags is a good example although very much frowned upon in the Deaf community because they think he is taking the pi$$. Mrs ST was taught her BSL level 4 in Liverpool by a profoundly Deaf man who had learned & could speak seven languages, one of them being Russian..... insanely clever man. That's the trouble with Deafness everyone thinks they are stupid.... there is nothing wrong with Deaf people apart from they can't hear. One of the sweetest things I ever saw was my four year old Deaf son signing in his sleep & one of the sweetest things I ever heard was the same boy now fourteen singing in the bath! (well out of tune.... hey! I'm allowed!)
Great cause and personal to me as my parents were both deaf. Dad from birth and Mum from Meningitis at 6 Well deserved I’m sure Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It's a good laugh and rather frightening if you ever see your file. I've saw mine some years ago and the amount they knew about me and those I associated with. Today it's probably stamped"Mostly Harmless" Sent from my ALCATEL ONE TOUCH 9002A using Tapatalk
This is true, but I did walk 40 miles along a smelly river in one day once and raised £400 towards a bus for the local deaf to go on nolidays in, and I did help in a deaf and blind workshop as a volunteer for 2 years. Hear no evil speak no evil still makes me proper belly laugh though.
Thinking about it mrs Sweeney Todd is going to need an agent what with television appearances, opening fairs etc etc, I’m your man
