After yesterday’s report of statements from the British Deaf Association and the National Deaf Children’s Society, now SignHealth, the Deaf health charity, have given us a statement from Acting CEO Gary Cottrell on the potential impact of Brexit. He said:
“The result is going to cause a period of uncertainty , where it becomes increasingly difficult to get any Government Body and in particular the NHS to make any decisions. This will effect how specialist services for d/deaf people are funded .
SignHealth is a provider of these specialist services and remains the largest employer of d/deaf people in the UK, it is our view that whilst there is mounting evidence supporting the effectiveness of these services, funding continues to be an uphill struggle and will continue to be so in this period of uncertainty.”
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Linda Richards
June 28, 2016
I would just repeat what I said in yesterday’s article. Sigh.
Hartmut
June 28, 2016
So anything related to Deafness requires a solution from the worldwide point of view and regulations based on this.
A worldwide view fortunately have been taking the view as its basis for regulations that deaf people EXIST and is a part of humanity … unalterably.
A national solution to this problem has in the experience of the Deaf history rarely solved the problem and in fact contributed to the oppression against Deaf people and their sign language.
I hope, everyone will take the notion that everyone hears (deaf people vanish completely from this planet) horribly and must not be accepted.
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Cathy
June 28, 2016
I dont fully understand Hartmut’s last paragraph, but still, do we really need all this pessimism?
Will we not be saving £55m that we throw at the EU every day? Once we are finally out can this money not be diverted to such causes as these? Can pressure not be placed on the Government to be forced to fund such areas.
I do not believe we are so weak and feeble that we cannot request the diversion of this money and dont forget it IS British taxpayers money after all!! And for that reason alone Britain should benefit from it NOT the EU!!!
Hartmut
June 29, 2016
My last paragraph refers to the premise that everyone ought to be hearing and deafness is to be seen as a defect, which ought to vanish from this Earth.by medicine and technology.
Thinking about the humanity be all hearing (thus taking away from humanity one aspect of diversity) should be horrendous. DEAF PEOPLE MUST CONTINUE TO EXIST. for otherwise humanity is deficient.
This is the mentality where the resistance against Deaf services comes from. It has been treated as a temporary relief, while the working to eradicate deafness continues. See the ban on implanting the fetus with a deaf gene in women in the UK. Deafness must be hated, abhorred, and eradicated, that seems the mentality Cathy and others with the same mindset, to be blind to.
While it has always been difficult to assert Deaf rights locally and nationally, it must welcome the international pressure and use it to assert them in the local law-making process. The pessimism of getting such a local support is warranted by the Deaf experience.
Cathy, you are still naive and does not know the history of the past efforts of the British deaf people and their associations. It is a history of efforts bearing little fruit You need EU and UN to advocate more effectively for Deaf rights in your country. It was BDA who co-created EUD, knowing the need for European support. You are more like a hearing person who acts more audistically and insularly, while Deaf people are more globally oriented. You don’t have acquired the worldwide collective consciousness of a Deaf person.
I understand that it is difficult to distinguish between what is to be considered local/national and what is global in different areas of concern and evaluate their respective importance. The Deaf issue is global, no question about it. Question is how to address it locally.
Hartmut
June 29, 2016
“Throwing away 55 Mill Pounds a day” is not as large as what Germany, France and other EU countries contribute per capita. UK should do this anyway to repair her colonial heritage and for being wealthy . Sweden and Germany contributes more than the UK does, even they did not exploit the peoples in the Southern hemisphere. Although they are relatively as wealthy as the UK and do not have colonial pasts, they contribute more to relief the World’s humanitarian problems, especially in regards to refugees.
The British are experiencing the Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden”.