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National Deaf Awareness Week 28th June - 4th July 2010 is Deaf Awareness Week. The theme this year is 'Look At Me' and this year Barnsley College are getting involved in raising awareness. Throughout the week Additional Learning Support will be out at all College sites handing out foam hearing protectors and other useful information to students. Learners will be encouraged to grab a pair and wear these for at least an hour a day so they can understand what it would be like, not to be able to hear the normal day to day things properly. Please See the timetable below to see where Addtional Learning Support will be and when.
Some Quick Facts Nearly 15% of the population have some degree of deafness. For every 10,000 people: 10 will be born profoundly deaf. They probably get little or no benefit from Hearing Aids and mainly use Sign Language to communicate. 20 will have become profoundly deaf. They may use Sign Language and probably also lipread. 100 will be partially deaf. They may have difficulty following what is being said, even with hearing aids. Mostly they will lipread and some use sign language as well. 600 will be hard of hearing. They will be able to follow what is being said with a hearing aid and will be able to use a telephone if it has an adjustable volume or has been designed to be used with a hearing aid. 800 will be mildly hard of hearing. They may have difficulty following conversations particularly in large groups or in noisy situations. Some will wear hearing aids and many find lipreading helpful. • British Sign Language (BSL) is the first or preferred language of around 70,000 people in the UK. • About 2 million people in Britain wear hearing aids, maybe another million would benefit from doing so. • Almost all deaf and hard of hearing people rely on lipreading to some extent. • Many combine signs from BSL with English in order to communicate. "Being deaf is about experiencing the world visually" www.deafcouncil.org.uk Article OptionsYour Favorite Articles
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Barnsley College will hold its Graduation ceremony on Friday 1st October 2010 at 12.00pm at Barnsley Town Hall.
Barnsley College and Fosters Bakery formalised their working relations
with an official partnership signing event on Tuesday 14th September. 
Barnsley College were delighted to find out that they had made it
through to the regional final of the National Training Awards. Following
a visit from the judges, the College has now progressed on to the
regional final where the winners will be announced in September.