{"id":16083,"date":"2017-02-17T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:57:24","slug":"mother-launches-support-group-for-families-of-deaf-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/mother-launches-support-group-for-families-of-deaf-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother launches support group for families of deaf children"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Cardiff mum is trying to get more help for parents with deaf children and teenagers. <\/p>\n

Siobhan Darian is working with the city’s Deaf Club to start a new group so they can have more contact with people who are deaf and find out what it means to be deaf.<\/p>\n

They are launching Cardiff Deaf Creative Hands to create a place where hearing and deaf people can mix. <\/p>\n

The plan is for families to gain support from each other and learn sign language together as a family.\u00a0It’s also a way for parents with young deaf\u00a0children to meet\u00a0deaf teenagers and adults.<\/p>\n

According to the UK Deaf Community, studies have shown that children who learn British sign language (BSL) at a young age are more likely to attend university and do better in school.<\/p>\n

They say\u00a0that 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents and that many of these parents want to learn BSL to communicate with their children but this is not provided free to them.<\/p>\n

Mrs Darian has a two year old deaf son, Nathaniel. She says: \u00a0“Being a mum myself and speaking to other mums but also speaking to deaf teenagers, this bridge between the hearing and deaf community is so needed. A child that is left without cultural roots based on language acquisition can feel isolated, not belonging to any community – we want to present our children with language, love, culture, strength and a knowledge that they can be anything they want to be, being deaf is not a barrier to achievement with the relevant support.”<\/p>\n

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Siobhan with her son, Nathaniel<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Cardiff mum is trying to get more help for parents with deaf children and teenagers. Siobhan Darian is working with the city’s Deaf Club to start a new group so they can have more contact with people who are deaf and find out what it means to be deaf. They are launching Cardiff Deaf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[746,743],"tags":[26,1197,600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16134,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions\/16134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}