Useful Resources for Parents

Lambeth & Southwark

Lambeth Deaf Advice Service helps local deaf residents over the age of 18 by supporting them in various matters and translating issues/correspondence into British Sign Language.

National

NDCS is the National Deaf Children’s Society. It’s free to sign up your family to access resources such as their introductory class to British Sign Language (BSL). Their mission is to remove the social and educational barriers that hold deaf children back by campaigning on behalf of the families they support.

Chloe’s and Sophie’s Special Ears Fund aims to ‘Brighten the lives of Deaf children’. They aim to: Raise Deaf Awareness; Enhance the sound acoustics in classrooms and school halls, for deaf children in mainstream schools; Provide resources and equipment to deaf children to support their emotional wellbeing.  Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire and some areas of London.

Scope (Equality for Disabled People) provides lots of support and resources for familes with disabled children including information on issues around sleeping. You also can apply to Sleep Right, a free support service that helps parents and carers of disabled children to improve their child’s sleep (six online or telephone sessions).

The British Deaf Foundation is national Deaf-led organisation that campaigns for equal rights on a national level and working at a local level empowering Deaf people to achieve access to their local public services. Recent campaigns include BSL In Our Hands.

The Ewing Foundation works with support/advisory services, schools, resource provisions, Teachers of the Deaf, mainstream teachers, and teaching assistants to develop and extend good practice. 

Introduction to Deaf Awareness from the NDCS This free CPD accredited module is the perfect place to start learning about deaf awareness, and only takes about 15 minutes to complete. Learn to identify some of the challenges deaf people experience when communicating with hearing people, name some things you can do to make lip-reading easier, and use some basic fingerspelling and basic BSL signs.