National Deaf Children’s Society is supporting Anti-Bullying Week 2014 with the launch of a video featuring a 16 year old deaf boy providing tips on how to handle and prevent bullying.
Ammaar Hussein, who stars in the video, has a Profound Sensori Neural hearing loss and wears two hearing aids. He offers advice to young people, especially deaf young people who are being bullied, and offers tips including: talk to someone; don’t fight back; hold your anger; and give yourself a boost e.g. by joining a club or taking up a sport that will increase your confidence.
Watch his video below:
Research carried out by the National Deaf Children’s Society found that almost two thirds of deaf young people have been bullied because of their deafness.
As well as the video it has developed resources to help deaf young people, their parents and education professionals tackle bullying issues. The resources cover all forms of bullying including, verbal, emotional – such as deliberately ignoring someone, and also includes physical and cyber-bullying.
Lucy Read, Head of Children and Young People’s Participation at the National Deaf Children’s Society said:
“Any child can experience bullying but we know deaf children and young people can be more vulnerable. Difficulties with language, communication and social skills, such as simply not understanding a joke that everyone else is laughing at, can contribute to a deaf child feeling isolated and at risk of being bullied by their peers.”
Lucy goes on to say:
“Whatever the reason, bullying is unacceptable. There are 45,000 deaf children and young people in the UK and this guide aims to help parents prepared to spot, handle and prevent bullying from happening at all.”
Martha Evans, Acting National Coordinator at the Anti-Bullying Alliance, hosted by leading children’s charity the National Children’s Bureau said:
“We are delighted to see the new video from National Deaf Children’s Society today supporting Anti-Bullying week 2014. Together with the excellent anti-bullying resources that National Deaf Children’s Society provides, young people, parents, carers and schools will be supported to tackle bullying and help support deaf children and young people.
“It is important we all work together to prevent bullying and ensure we respond appropriately when it does occur. These guides also support our theme for Anti-Bullying Week which starts today – Let’s Stop Bullying for All”.
More information on how to access the resources can be found at ndcs.org.uk/bullying
Anti-Bullying week takes place from 17 – 21 November 2014. You can follow the full Anti-Bullying week campaign activity using #Stopbullying
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pennybsl
November 18, 2014
Great
More needs to be done. .
Deaf Education Staff need to engage more with each other in regions and localities to show parents, local authorities, communities our dedication and belief in young deaf people to achieve.
Include more Deaf people working in education to show that being Deaf is part & parcel of life, not an object of pity and bullying.
Cathy
November 19, 2014
Its great to tackle bullying in all its guises and to make deaf children and young adults more inclusive in life. That is a profound plus.
However, we do need to tread very carefully because the kind of subtle emotional bullying that is construed as being “nasty or cruel” can very often be masking strong leadership skills that will no doubt serve a child well in adult life.
We therefore cannot wipe out ALL bullying as some obviously desire, without having a detrimental affect upon a child’s personality and character. It would be disastrous to stamp out what one may deem as “bullying” when it is a good character trait for becoming a leader, boss of a firm etc in the working world!
We must also not forget that we are all here to learn about life, so wiping out all “bullying” is not feasible! For example, how would it be proved someone has been ignored? And how would you stop that, especially if two or more personality types do not gel?!
This is one of our pathways to learning about each other and the lives we lead. Wipe out serious obvious bullying by all means but the subtle characteristical behaviours that both children and adults, deaf or otherwise, display should not be classed as bullying but a pathway for us to learn from, most likely for the better!