Northern Ireland Deaf News & Fundraising
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Where? Millennium Forum, Derry
When? Thursday 21st September 2017
Time? 10.00am – 3.00pm
Everyone Welcome – Free Admission
BSL & ISL Interpreters available 10.00am – 12.00pm
For more info go to www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/north-west-job-fair or phone 02890 829374
Action on Hearing Loss Northern Ireland: We are holding an information session for people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus about getting jobs, work placements and/or training.
Our Specialist Employment Programme offers expert help for people with hearing loss in job searching, CV writing and mock interviews.
Our experienced staff will be available to chat to you about the support we can offer to people with hearing loss who are in employment but who may be having some problems.
You are invited to come along to FREE 8 week employability programme. It will be every Thursday 9am – 4pm. Starting Thursday 28th Sept.
See course info below:
Please note! Omniplex Sat/Sun morning subititled shows are for people with hearing loss AS WELL as people with autism. The lights will be left ON.
Stephen Kings IT subtitled (15) 134 mins
Scary horror. Maine, USA. Local kids are disappearing one by one, leaving behind bloody remains. A group of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange encounters with an evil clown and their determination to kill It. ★★★★ Telegraph
Continue reading “Subtitled/Captioned Accessible Cinema! IRELAND North & South”
Doire Deaf Women’s Group
Please note! Omniplex Sat/Sun morning subititled shows are for people with hearing loss AS WELL as people with autism. The lights will be left ON.
Stephen Kings IT subtitled (15) 134 mins
Scary horror. Maine, USA. Local kids are disappearing one by one, leaving behind bloody remains. A group of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange encounters with an evil clown and their determination to kill It. ★★★★ Telegraph
Continue reading “Subtitled/Captioned Accessible Cinema! IRELAND North & South”
Action on Hearing Loss are running Tinnitus Awareness Events throughout Northern Ireland.
If you have tinnitus or know someone who does, please come along and find out more about understanding tinnitus, how it affects you and learn techniques to help minimise the distressing effect of tinnitus. Reflexology and relaxation techniques will be available on the night.
Tinnitus Awareness Events dates and venues
British Deaf Association: PRESS RELEASE: UK Government needs to grant deaf people “the right to educated high-quality sign language interpretation”: leading UN committee paves the way for a British Sign Language Act
In a landmark moment for deaf people in the UK, the UK government has been told by a leading UN committee that it must “ensure that legislation provides for the right to educated high-quality sign language interpretation…in all spheres of life”, highlighting a key loophole in current UK law.
The announcement came as part of the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) whose chairperson, Theresia Degener, was unfaltering in her clear criticism of the UK Government’s ‘grave and systematic violations’ of deaf and disabled people’s human rights.
Read the full Press Release on our site at:
Closing date: 15th September 2017
Action Deaf Youth: We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Youth Support Team and to assist the Youth Support Worker-in-Charge in Belfast in running a deaf youth club every week and providing support in the delivery of programmes for deaf young people.
Further details and application form at: www.communityni.org/job/assistant-youth-support-worker-belfast-0
