Information for young deaf people

Who Am I? is for all young deaf people aged 13 to 19-years-old and their parents living in Scotland. 

You might feel that being deaf is just a part of your life and you feel OK about it. You might never think about it. Or maybe being deaf is a really important part of who you are.

• Having the confidence to be independent in a hearing world.
• Creating books and a DVD about your lives, ideas, thoughts and the things that are important to you.
  

• We will have our final ‘Who am I?’ family weekend in March 2011 so you can meet other deaf young people and have a fun weekend
• We have already run our writing and photography events for young people and our book and DVD will be available to all NDCS members in 2011

Over the past two years we have held five Who am I? weekends for deaf young people and their families.

Our final weekend will take place in March 2011 in Aviemore. Read more >

Why will there be weekend events?
In the NDCS Change Your World consultation, many of you told us that you would like to meet more young deaf people. The weekend events will give you lots of time to meet and make friends with other young deaf people. It also gives us lots of time to do fun activities and gives your parents an opportunity to meet parents of other young deaf people.

Why would I want to go on a weekend with my parents?
NDCS does a lot of work with parents of deaf children and young deaf people and we find that they like meeting other parents as much as you like meeting other young deaf people. So, at the weekend events, your parents will come along and do their own activities and talk about parent’s stuff. You’ll be doing fun activities with other young deaf people, so you won’t have to worry about them!

What will we do at the weekend events?
Who Am I? is all about feeling confident as a young deaf person and sharing your experiences of growing up deaf in a hearing world.

We'll be doing lots of fun creative things at the weekend events that help you express yourself in lots of different ways and say what’s important to you.

Our project workers will also attend the weekend events. The project workers are young, deaf adults who will be talking about their lives and experiences growing up as a young deaf person. They'll also lead fun activities.