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Motion · S4M-12875 · 31 Mar 2015

Deaf Awareness Week 2015

Lodged by Siobhan McMahon Members' Business Motion 60 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes Deaf Awareness Week, which takes place between 4 and 10 May 2015; recognises what it considers the importance for everyone to receive deaf awareness training and learn about the communication needs of the 850,000 people across Scotland who are deaf or have hearing loss, including 13,000 British Sign Language users and people who rely on lipreading or electronic note-takers during conversations at meetings, social events, work or in public service, leisure, retail or business environments, and congratulates charities such as Action on Hearing Loss Scotland’s specialist On the Move service on what it sees as the effective work that they do in raising deaf awareness and achieving a 63% success rate in supporting 206 young people who are deaf or hard of hearing, including 48 in the Central Scotland region, into positive education, training or employment destinations.

Supporters (60)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.