1. sports coach UK Tutor CPD Event 27 th April 2012

2. 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

3. History

4. First Recorded Club Glasgow Deaf Athletic FC 1871

5. 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.

6. 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; Asia- Pacific, European, Pan-American and African Paris, 1924 148 athletes, 9 European nations Taiwan, 2009, 2,493 athletes, 77 nations ICSD 104 nations

7. UK Deaf Sport Sports Pathways Accreditation, Classification International Representation Inclusive Sport project Information and Advice

8. 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

9. Deaf/HoH coaches in your workshops Technology Loop systems Radio hearing aids Hearing aids and cochlear implants Using Sign Language Interpreters

10. Developing your communication The River Lipreading Can you sign?

11. Developing your communication ac a ill wen u t e ill

12. Developing your communication J k nd J ll w t up th hi

13. Developing your communication Jack and Jill went up the hill

14. Where to go next? Lee Dolby Inclusive Sport Advisor leed@ukds.org.uk Tel: 07850 796241 UK Deaf Sport, c/o Deaf Direct, Vesta Tilley House, Lowesmoor, Worcester, WR1 2RS