Editor: I recently met with Jackie Perkins, Editor of the deafZINE to find out about the deaf-leicester website and their fantastic magazine. Jackie said: “We at deaf-leicester started deafZINE – the community magazine created FOR the deaf, BY the deaf! because of the feedback we received from our readers, when the deaf-leicester website was launched. We discovered [...] [...more]
5th - 11th May 2008 is Deaf Awareness Week, and Action Deafness is holding a series of FREE events across the county to raise awareness and promote social inclusion. Click here for Action Deafness Events [...more]
Action Deafness aims to improve quality of life by promoting independence and equality of opportunity for Deaf, Deafened, Deafblind and Hard of Hearing people. Deafness affects approximately one in seven of the British population. Of these people 8.3 million are hard of hearing, 123,000 are deafened, 70,000 are profoundly deaf and approximately 24,000 are deafblind. Action Deafness [...] [...more]
