Deaf and the Law

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Report on young Deaf people and the law.  But what BIAS this lawyer has...... (Read the paragraph underlined, rejection of near 10m with loss). Do we need legal advice from these people ?

Jeff Brattan-Wilson, manager of the Royal Association for Deaf people’s (RAD) Deaf Law Centre, writes:The Making the law work for young Deaf people report was commissioned by the Law Centres Network to study young Deaf people’s access to the legal system in England and Wales. It is hoped that the findings will improve young Deaf people’s access to the legal system and therefore legal advice.
The report confirmed that in order for young Deaf people to benefit from legal advice, they need to have access to background information: for many people, this can be obtained through the radio, conversations (either direct or overheard), television and various social media outlets, such as podcasts. However, young Deaf people are likely to miss such information as primarily mainstream society is audio based.
The findings also demonstrated the importance of training hearing problem-noticers, such as teachers for the deaf, social workers, youth workers and parents. From our research, we found that young Deaf people are likely to go to these people for advice and signposting. If hearing problem-noticers are not aware of accessible services, young Deaf people will believe that there are no services available for them to access.
As part of the study into young Deaf people’s understanding of the Equality Act (EqA) 2010, we delivered EqA training to a group of young Deaf people. The training showed that very often their expectations were low because of their environment, where they expect hearing people to make decisions on their behalf. Thus, they struggled to identify the opportunities that the EqA provides for them. For example, one question was: ‘If a major football club is selling tickets for a match, and supporters can only book tickets by telephone, what would you do?’; the majority replied with the solution of asking hearing peers or family to book a ticket on their behalf. Young Deaf people did not consider using the EqA to challenge the ticket-selling process to open up various ways to buy a ticket.

• ‘Small d’ deaf people do not associate with other members of the deaf community, strive to identify themselves with hearing people, and regard their hearing loss solely in medical terms. ‘Big D’ Deaf people identify themselves as culturally deaf, and have a strong deaf identity.

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