About Deaf Awareness Week

For the past seven years we’ve celebrated Deaf Awareness Week (DAW) in North Somerset with the deaf community and a wide range of organisations, voluntary groups and local schools.

1 to 7 May 2023

This year's DAW will focus on 'Access to communication' and explore the entire theme of inclusion within our community. We will highlight:

• the impact of hearing loss on everyday life
• importance of mental health in deaf
• increase visibility and inclusion of underrepresented groups amongst deaf such as migrants, black, Asian, minority ethnic people and women
• raise relevant issues of deafness being overlooked within education and the workplace

Deaf Awareness survey

To mark Deaf Awareness Week, we're working with Citizens Advice North Somerset to launch a survey. The aim is to find out which organisations are Deaf Aware and go out of their way to help people, and which are not. When the results are in, we’ll offer some free Deaf Awareness sessions from our partners to try and improve the situation.