Lee's BSL lessons: The Bristol Deaf Epidemic

[Charlotte823]

thanks @LeesBSLlessons for this informative video. I have signed the Bristol petition and was thinking of mentioning the Leeds petition but you already know about it!

[forgottenartform]

I think it's awful that they're cutting the services funding - it's great for the community, it provides people a place to go and meet new people. It really make a difference to peoples lives (I used to work as a volunteer in a drop-in centre in Bridgend and it made such a positive difference to the people who used it)

[Fieryhellcat]

@theweepywillow !! Whoops sorry!!

[Fieryhellcat]

@theweepingwillow - what level are the courses you're looking at? I live in blackpool (about 35mins away from Lancaster) n they offer courses here too, and although we don't have a huge deaf community what we do have is very friendly and open and I'm sure would be pleased to meet you :-)

Also I believe preston (about 25/30 mins away) has a good deaf community aswell.

If you'd be interested in meeting up with people from b'pool please get in touch :-)

xXx

[Fieryhellcat]

I agree, its terrible that these services are closing down!!

And I can can also see how the deaf community feel about RNID changing its name, let's just hope they stick to their word and keep providing for the deaf community.

[TheWeepyWillow]

I'm in Lancaster, we have deaf club,There are two problems, tho - first, I'm hearing impaired American, so I know ASL and want to learn BSL because I live+ hope to stay in UK. But as a post-grad student I can't afford the £260+ for the starter course and the £450+ for the advanced course. So it's hard for me to find a way to learn it, and so I can't even get involved here! But there isn't much hapning in our deaf club here so even if i learn BSL there's really little in my area to do with it :(

[pyrothesis1]

i'm surprised by the lack of respect people show to deaf people, i'm the only hearing member of staff where i work who can sign but i'm not proficiant i still have to spell a lot of words, but 1 of my managers at work has managed to drive out 2 of the 3 deaf people working there, and said to the remaining one "listen harder" when she asked for her sign for her till because she's profoundly deaf but can lip read, as 2 customers had already complained she'd ignored cos she wasn't looking at time