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Reaching Deaf Minds - Campaigns to reduce the risk of deaf people developing mental health problems by improving access to primary care services.
DeafClub.co.uk - A directory of deafness-related resources, including organisations, BSL, culture, magazines, and discussion groups.
Deafworks - A team of D/deaf writers, researchers, artists, and project workers, offering a range of training and awareness projects for organisations and individuals, D/deaf and hearing.
HiYPE - News, forum, opinions, events listing, and information for hearing-impaired younger people who use primarily oral communication.
Sound Seekers - Information about registered charity which supports deaf people, particularly children in developing countries of the Commonwealth.
Deaf-UK - Yahoo discussion board for Deaf people in the UK, covering a range of Deaf issues.
Together IT Works - Information and advice for deaf and hard of hearing people wanting to improve their computer skills, seeking employment or wanting to improve their job. This is a project run by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People in the UK.
Deaf Station - Providing information and resources for the Deaf community. The site available entirely in BSL using Quick Time video clips is a valuable resource to the Deaf community. Broadband is recommended for this site.
Deafchild International website - De@fchild International is a catalyst for the creation of personal and educational opportunities for deaf and hearing children to communicate with each other throughout the world, by using face to face communication and Information and Communications Technology
Deaf and Creative - Information about 'creative' jobs, training, education and setting up in business for young deaf people.
The Deaf Broadcasting Council - Consumer organisation representing deaf, deafened and hard of hearing television viewers, working to improve their access to the medium. Includes information about their history and activities, with advice for viewers.
DEX - The Deaf ex-Mainstreamers Group supports and campaigns for the interests of deaf people who attended/attend hearing mainstream education. Information about their activities and contact details.
Disability Alliance Home Page - Regularly updated information about benefits, tax credits, community care as well as disability related campaigns and parliamentary news.
Federation of Deaf People - National organisation campaigning and promoting Deaf people's rights. Information on events, publications and membership.
Hearing Concern - Organisation dedicated to improving the quality of life of those who are hard of hearing. Provides advice and support, promotes communication access and raises awareness. Includes news, events listing, and links directory.
The Jewish Deaf Association - History and description of the organisation, with details of membership, activities, events and training.
The Link Centre for Deafened People - A national organisation for deafened people. Includes information about their specialist rehabilitation services, training, events, and support available.
Muslim Deaf Group - Information about the Muslim Deaf Group together with general information on Islam and the Deaf community
The National Association of Deafened People - UK organisation representing deafened people, providing information and support to enable them to regain their independence and quality of life. Description of activities, publications and membership details.
NDCS (National Deaf Children's Society) - Dedicated to the support of all deaf children, young deaf people, their parent and carers, and professionals. History, description of activities, events, training and membership.
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) - The largest charity representing deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. Information about the organisation, and its services, including campaigning, information, training courses and consultancy, interpreters, and employment programmes to help deaf people into work.
Sense - Organisation for people who are deafblind or have associated disabilities.
Sign - The National Society for Mental Health and Deafness - Information about the organisation and its activities, including residential and day services, and specialist support for deaf people and children with mental health problems.
SPIT (Signed Performances in Theatre) - promotes availability & awareness of British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted theatre. UK listings of BSL interpreted shows, events and advice.
Stagetext - Promotes captioning and subtitling in entertainment, educational, training and cultural venues to increase accessibility for people with a hearing loss. Information on activities, news, and performance listing.
The Telecoms Action Group - A consortium of the main UK deaf organisations, working to improve deaf people's access to telephone services and facilities. Details of activities, newsletter, and history.
UK Council on Deafness - Founded by a consortium of deaf organisations to extend co-operation between member organisations in promoting the interests of deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people. Includes news, and details of their activities, events and publications.
Your Local Cinema - The only listings service created exclusively for accessible cinema. Provides up-to-date information on subtitled screenings of all films currently being screened.
ASLI (Association of Sign Language Interpreters) - The professional association of British Sign Language/English interpreters in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Aiming to encourage good practice in intepreting and to represent the interests and views of Sign Language interpreters and the interpreting profession.
Association of Lipspeakers - Information about the organisation and its activities; includes advice on using lipspeakers, training information, and a directory organised by region and by name.
BATOD (British Association of Teachers of the Deaf) - Information about the organisation, its activities, membership and branches. Includes details on training, and articles on audiology and education issues.
BDA (British Deaf Association) - Information about this organisation representing the Deaf community, British Sign Language, with a directory of services for the Deaf community.
CACDP (Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People) - The examining body for deafness related courses in the UK. The CACDP website holds details of courses and centres. CACDP also hold a register of human aids to communication which is available online.
The Catholic Deaf Association - An association of deaf and hearing people who support each other and promote services for deaf people in the community. Description of activities, events listing, news and a history.
Deafax Trust - Organises research, educational and training projects, using information technology to enable deaf children, young people and adults to communicate effectively with hearing people on an equal basis.
UK Deaf Sports - UK Deaf Sports aims to encourage Deaf people to participate, to enjoy and to excel at sport. UK Deaf Sports contains information on Deaf sporting events throughout the UK.
SASLI (Scottish Association of Sign Lanugage Intepreters) - Association of registered and trainee Sign Language Interpreters in Scotland.
Defeating Deafness : Hearing Research Trust - Defeating Deafness: tinnitus, glue ear, hearing aids, cochlear implants, cholesteatoma, presbyacusis, otosclerosis
TypeTalk - The national telephone relay service which enables deaf, deafblind, deafened, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people to enjoy the benefits of the telephone, communicating with hearing people anywhere in the world.
British Deaf History Society - Researching and publishing the history of the Deaf community in the UK.
Zebra Uno - Communications services and training courses for the Deaf community.
The Forest Bookshop Online - The largest supplier of books, videos, CD-Roms and other materials related to deafness is the UK.
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Deaf and Hearing Impaired "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Deaf and Hearing Impaired "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Deaf and Hearing Impaired Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Deaf and Hearing Impaired "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Deaf and Hearing Impaired We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Deaf and Hearing Impaired An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer Deaf and Hearing Impaired "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Deaf and Hearing Impaired Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Deaf and Hearing Impaired Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Deaf and Hearing Impaired The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Deaf and Hearing Impaired "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Deaf and Hearing Impaired Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Deaf and Hearing Impaired Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Deaf and Hearing Impaired "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Deaf and Hearing Impaired It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Deaf and Hearing Impaired A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Deaf and Hearing Impaired At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Deaf and Hearing Impaired "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Deaf and Hearing Impaired Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Deaf and Hearing Impaired This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Deaf and Hearing Impaired None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Deaf and Hearing Impaired
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