National Deaf Children's Society

National Deaf Children's Society is the national charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people.

The National Deaf Children's Society was founded in London on 15 December 1944 by a handful of parents of deaf children concerned about the impact of the 1944 Education Act on their schooling.

Since then National Deaf Children's Scoiety has been working with key politicians across the UK to raise the issue of educational underachievement by deaf children.

The Society offers a wide range of services to deaf children and their families:

Free phone Helpline (0808 800 8880) providing balanced information, support and referral service to specialist advisors.

Family Support Network where trained volunteers - family supporters - listen and provide support and information to parents and carers of deaf children across England.

Deaf Role Models who are successful deaf adults, with different types and levels of hearing loss using a range of communication methods make home visits at evenings and weekends to local families with deaf children, providing support and discussing their own personal experiences of living with deafness.

A Listening Bus that carries examples of equipment such as radio aids, telephones, textphones and videophones, vibrating alarm clocks, subtitled and signed films, flashing doorbells, deaf friendly computer software, and personal paging systems.

All of these services combine to help National Deaf Childrens Society with its mission of creating a world without barriers for every deaf child.

To make a donation to National Deaf Children's Society now:
http://www.ndcs.org.uk/help_us/index.html

Visit National Deaf Children's Society:
http://www.ndcs.org.uk/