Alison

Occasional comment.

[Alison @Deaf]

Deaf UK Jobs was set up on the 8 April 1999 and here we are 25,197 adverts later.

[Alison @Deaf]

BSL Wales Act Celebration event happing on 11th March at 3.30pm. If you'd like to attend, book your ticket: https://t.co/4h0uxc4EZE

[Alison @Deaf]

New Year's Honours 2026

CBE

Dr Lynne Bernadette BARNES
Principal Lecturer, University of Lancashire.
For services to Education (Preston, Lancashire)

[Alison @Deaf]

New Year's Honours 2026

OBE

Robert Jan Michiel NOLAN
Chair, Board of Trustees, Deafblind UK. For services to People Living with Deafblindness
(Hope Valley, Derbyshire)

[Alison @Deaf]

Updated list here: https://t.co/UahCXdcGnL if you know of anymore, please let me know.

[Alison @Deaf]

King's Birthday Honours 2025

BEM:

Tony BECKETT
For services to the Deaf Community
(Redcar, North Yorkshire)

[Alison @Deaf]

King's Birthday Honours 2025

MBE:

Peter Hugh BURROUGHS
Lately Trustee and Chair, Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education. For services to Education (Yelverton, Devon)

[Alison @Deaf]

King's Birthday Honours 2025

MBE:

Merleen Ann WATSON
For services to the Deaf and Hearing Impaired Community in Worcestershire (Broadway, Worcestershire)

[Alison @Deaf]

The Zoe one apparently is Joel.

[Alison @Deaf]

Deaf related New Year's Honours 2025

OBE:
Wendy DAUNT
Deaf Studies Teacher, Royal School for the Deaf, Derby.
For services to Deaf Children and to the Young Adult and Deaf Communities
(Derby, Derbyshire)

[Alison @Deaf]

Updated list here: https://t.co/UahCXdcGnL

[Alison @Deaf]

Just saw this about Tasha Ghouri and bullying over deaf speech. Hearing people need to learn to deal with it, since you're the ones who expect deaf people to speak, over glorify CI switch ons, etc.

https://t.co/rMmkpaGmAH

[Alison @Deaf]

Qualifications Wales suspended GCSE BSL indefinitely. Instead they've come up with a fraction of a qualification which can be taught in as little as 5 hours by an unqualified "BSL teacher". It is meaningless, insulting and a tokenistic exercise. Trick or treat.

[Alison @Deaf]

An blog post about the Welsh Government's opposition to a BSL (Wales) Bill.

https://t.co/LPwLfIUqK6

[Alison @Deaf]

@UN @VisitUN For an international organisation, you need to be offering this in International Sign too. Thanks.