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sports coach UK
Tutor CPD Event
27th April 2012
What to expect
 Brief introduction to history of deaf sport
 Role of UK Deaf Sport
 Working with Deaf & HoH coaches
 Developing your communication
 Where to go next
History
First Recorded Club
 Glasgow Deaf Athletic FC
 1871
International Silent Games,
Paris 1923
 Eugene Rubens-Alcais, Deaf
President of the French Deaf
Sports Federation.
 To counteract societal view that
deaf people were intellectually
inferior, linguistically impoverished
and often treated as outcasts.
 9 European countries
 Games became the context for
deliberating on international
similarities and differences in the
welfare of deaf people.
Deaflympics
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Logo designed on 2003, Ralph Fernandez
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Ties together; sign language, deaf and
international cultures, unity and continuity
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Overlapping signs for “ok”, “good”, “great”,
“Deaflympics” and “united”
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Iris of the eye – visual communication
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Colours of the regional confederations; AsiaPacific, European, Pan-American and African
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Paris, 1924 148 athletes, 9 European nations
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Taiwan, 2009, 2,493 athletes, 77 nations
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ICSD 104 nations
UK Deaf Sport
 Sports Pathways
 Accreditation, Classification
 International Representation
 Inclusive Sport project
 Information and Advice
UK Deaf Sport
 Representing 42 known sports deaf sports
organisations across the UK.
 9 million Deaf and Hard of hearing people in the UK
 No reliable statistics on participation
Deaf/HoH coaches in your
workshops
Technology
 Loop systems
 Radio hearing aids
 Hearing aids and cochlear implants
Using Sign Language Interpreters
Developing your
communication
 The River
 Lipreading
 Can you sign?
Developing your
communication
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Developing your
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J k nd J ll w t up th hi
Developing your
communication
Jack and Jill went up the hill
Where to go next?
Lee Dolby
Inclusive Sport Advisor
[email protected]
Tel: 07850 796241
UK Deaf Sport, c/o Deaf Direct,
Vesta Tilley House, Lowesmoor, Worcester, WR1 2RS