> A colleague has approached me regarding funding. She has been
> approached by the local Deaf community and the BDA in Cardiff with a
> view to putting on a counselling skills course for deaf people.
> Participants will attend 9 weekends. All participants will be deaf /
> hearing impaired. To reduce the cost of the course she is seeking
> funding either for individual students or towards the overall cost of
> staging the course. Any ideas?
It is felt that deaf students have a high drop out rate in their
first year, often through poor socialisation or basic skills difficulties.
We had thought of running courses which sound like those above
between ourselves and City Lit here in Central London. Given the
purpose of the DSAs, and the ways we often use them with dyslexics,
it would not be unreasonable to get them to cover the costs as long
as it could be argued that the course's purposes were broadly intended
to address study problems which arise directly out of the effects of
the student's deafness.
Of course this may not have been the original intention, but it
remains the case that something of the sort is badly needed.
Dave Laycock MBE
Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1N 5AL
tel. 0171-911-5161
fax. 0171-911-5162
WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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