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)
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)
King's Birthday Honours 2025
MBE:
Merleen Ann WATSON
For services to the Deaf and Hearing Impaired Community in Worcestershire (Broadway, Worcestershire)
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)
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
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.