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Technology
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Technology is transforming the lives of deaf children, but the expanding range of specialist equipment can prove daunting to families and carers. The NDCS Technology service was established in 1986 and remains unrivalled in Europe for its friendly impartial advice and level of expertise that is second to none.
NDCS believes that all deaf children and young deaf people have the right to equal access to all information and communication services and equipment as their hearing peers with an equivalent functionality and at equivalent cost.
NDCS especially urges your support for:
- ensuring that deaf children and their families have access to a full and up-to-date range of essential equipment, through health, education and social services, irrespective of where they live in the UK.
- the encouragement and facilitation of a "design for all" philosophy within industry in the development of all new technology.
- facilitating research into new technologies that may benefit deaf children and young people
- an extension of the obligations to provide subtitling and sign language access by all terrestrial and non-terrestrial television companies, and an increase in the quantity and quality of provision.
- Ensuring that the portrayal of deaf children on television and in the media is positive and representative, with deaf characters drawn from the deaf community
- widening access to cinema, video, computer software and internet products and services for deaf children and young deaf people.
- ensuring deaf young people and hearing aid users have equal access to mobile and fixed telephone services
For the latest news click here: www.ndcs.org.uk/news_media/press_releases/index.html
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