Deaf Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future is an Offshoot Foundation project running throughout the first half of 2025. The project involves students from King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds and Northgate High School in Ipswich. The students are aged 11-15 and some are deaf and some are hearing.
We are working with the students to make a series of short films about different aspects of deaf life in the past, present and future. Film topics include:
🎬 Deaf people’s experiences of education, across generations
🎬 The experiences of deaf students at university
🎬 The role played by Suffolk student Daniel Jillings in the campaign for a GCSE in British Sign Language
🎬 Top tips for hearing people when communicating with deaf people
🎬 The development of hearing technology over time
The films will be screened to an invited audience in June and then shared online.
The project aims to spread deaf awareness and provide tools which can help us all make society more deaf friendly. The students taking part are developing new skills and growing in confidence.
The project has grown out of an earlier Deaf Perspectives project which took the photographs of local deaf photographer Walton Burrell as inspiration.
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Deaf Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to provide opportunities for young people to develop new skills and share their perspective on the world.
