Deaf Awareness Week

Celebrate Deaf Awareness Week (5 to 11 May 2025) with us and help make everyday life more deaf-friendly for children and young people.

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Our postcards, posters and flyers are a great way of raising deaf awareness.

During Deaf Awareness Week, we’ll be sharing powerful messages from deaf people to their younger selves.

Improve your deaf awareness with our free online quiz.

Read our top tips for communicating with deaf family and friends.

Try these activities with children and young people to encourage deaf awareness.

Use these short videos to help hearing children understand how to support their deaf friends.

Watch our fingerspelling videos or download our handy-to-use cards and learn how to spell out words and names.

Get advice and tips on making sport, music and the arts more accessible to deaf children and young people.

Read our tips for making days out, birthday parties, and cinema and theatre visits more inclusive for deaf children and young people.

Follow these helpful tips to make meetings more deaf-friendly and inclusive.

Watch National Deaf Children's Society staff and deaf young people share their top deaf awareness tips.

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We'll also be celebrating Deaf Awareness Week on social media so look out for our updates on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!