Campaigns archive

This section of the website includes archived information about our previous campaigns.

Too many deaf children are underachieving at school compared to other children. We need to close the gap.

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Many deaf children can’t achieve if they can’t listen and learn effectively in the classroom. Schools need to sound good.

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This contains information about the run-up to the 2010 General Election.

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NDCS believes that deaf children need to be able to communicate effectively by any appropriate method, whether through sign language, oral communication or a combination of approaches. NDCS is campaigning for more support within the family and at school for deaf children who communicate through British Sign Language.

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Evidence suggests that cochlear implants can benefit severely to profoundly deaf children. NDCS campaigns for cochlear implants to be made available for all families who choose this option and whose children will benefit.

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NDCS campaigns to ensure newborn hearing screening remains a priority to ensure that deafness is identified as soon as possible in babies born deaf. 

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Evidence suggests that deaf children are more likely to experience mental health problems. Even though deafness itself does not cause mental health problems, the communication barriers that deafness imposes may.

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TV is now more accessible to deaf children than ever before with 100% of the BBC's output on all of its seven main TV channels now subtitled. This is a fantastic achievement by the BBC, and follows sustained campaigning by NDCS and many other deaf organisations and charities. But, there is still a long way to go.

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