Other NDCS deaf friendly activities

The Me2 campaign builds upon the work of a number projects and ongoing work that NDCS has been involved with in the past. This section outlines some of the Deaf Friendly projects that deaf children and young deaf people can get involved in.

The NDCS events team continue to run a range of fun events throughout the year. Whether its circus skills or horse riding, day events or a week at an activity centre, there is something for everyone. These events are specifically aimed at deaf children and young deaf people. Whatever your form of communication – BSL, SSE, lipreading or oral, trained staff and volunteers will make sure you have understood what’s going on and won’t miss out.

The Me 2 campaign builds on the success of the NDCS Deaf Friendly Football project where we have been working with The Football Association to open up football facilities for young deaf football players, fans and coaches.

To help make children's television more accessible to deaf children, NDCS and BBC Children’s launched a booklet called ‘Deaf children and television – Becoming more inclusive: A guide for producers’  in 2006. The booklet, which was distributed to all BBC Children’s producers, illustrates the importance of portraying deaf children positively on television, how to make music content accessible and the use of clear visual accompaniments to enable deaf children to follow TV programmes. 

The content of the booklet is based on findings of an investigation into television for deaf children carried out by NDCS and the BBC’s access services supplier, Red Bee Media. The first major project of its kind in the UK, this qualitative and quantitative research project set out to obtain feedback about deaf children and young people’s use and experience of accessing television.