Transcript Slide 1
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
Logo designed on 2003, Ralph Fernandez
Ties together; sign language, deaf and
international cultures, unity and continuity
Overlapping signs for “ok”, “good”, “great”,
“Deaflympics” and “united”
Iris of the eye – visual communication
Colours of the regional confederations; AsiaPacific, European, Pan-American and African
Paris, 1924 148 athletes, 9 European nations
Taiwan, 2009, 2,493 athletes, 77 nations
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
ac a
ill wen u t e ill
Developing your
communication
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