Healthy Deaf Minds in Europe – 8th European Congress on Mental Health and Deafness, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 2nd – 5th November 2010

Programme and abstracts:

http://www.bsmhd.org.uk/esmhdcongress2010/

NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme: British Sign Language DVD

Leaflets translated into BSL

http://screening.org.uk/bowel/publications/british-sign-language-dvds-bowel.html

Deaf Health Research Project: A study of Deaf people’s health

Online survey (Ipsos MORI) – BSL and English. Are Deaf people more or less healthy than hearing people?

http://deafhealth.org.uk/

Falkirk Council: Information in English and BSL

Topics include: Deaf Community; Benefits & Grants; Business; Community; Council & Government; Education & Learning; Environment; Housing; Health & Safety; Recreation & Culture; Social Care & Health; Voting & Elections

http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/online/deafcommunity/default.asp

Dementia study launched within the Deaf community (University of Manchester, University College London, City University London, Royal Association for Deaf People – March 2010)

Press release and Notes for Editors – English and BSL

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5516

Dementia and deafness: what you need to know: Kate Allan, Frankie McLean and Liz Scott Gibson (Deaf Action in partnership with the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) at the University of Stirling)

Information on issues faced by people who are both deaf/hard of hearing and have dementia (a group of conditions that includes Alzheimer’s Disease), to help find ways to support them and their families, and enable them to continue to live as full a life as possible.

Web page and PDF:

http://www.alzscot.org/pages/info/deafness.htm#Working

PDF:

http://www.deafaction.org/pdf/Dementia%20&%20Deafness.pdf

Abuse and deaf children: Some factors to consider, by Sharon M. Ridgeway, Research Psychologist, National Centre for Mental Health and Deafness (Child Abuse Review, Volume 2 Issue 3, Pages 166 – 173,Published Online: 13 Feb 2006)

Abstract. Full article by subscription.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112413281/abstract

Forensic referrals to the three specialist psychiatric units for deaf people in the UK, by Alys Young; Paul Howarth; Sharon Ridgeway; Brendan Monteiro (Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Volume 12, Issue 1 April 2001 , pages 19 – 35)

Abstract – full article by subscription

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713604976

Deaf People’s Understanding of Health and Health Care Systems (Sally Ann Reynolds, M Phil Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2007)

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BSL Guide to the Prostate Gland (The Prostate Cancer Charity)

British Sign Language Guide to the Prostate Gland introduced by Clark Denmark and presented by Ian Townsley.

Introduction

http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk/info/bsl.asp

Full video (14 minutes)

http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk/media/video/prostatel_hi.wmv