National Deaf Children’s Society

Deaf young stars performed on stage at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre

Talented deaf young people gather in Birmingham to show off performance skills

Staff ReporterOctober 4, 201901 mins

A group of deaf young people from across the UK showed off their talents in music, dance and drama at a performance in Birmingham last week. The 20 deaf young stars performed on stage at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre after a weekend of intensive mentoring from leading deaf performance companies Music and the Deaf, Deaf…

Deaf children in the West Midlands are falling an entire grade behind their hearing classmates at GCSE level

Deaf children in West Midlands fall an entire grade behind at GCSE, according to new research

Staff ReporterAugust 19, 201901 mins

Deaf children in the West Midlands are falling an entire grade behind their hearing classmates at GCSE level, according to new analysis by the National Deaf Children’s Society. The charity issued the warning after analysing the Department for Education’s 2018 exam results data, which showed that the region’s deaf children score an average grade of…