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Campaign Ambassador
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BSL in our Hands Campaign
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ROLE DESCRIPTION
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The BDA wants you to bring your
personal experience, as a parent of a deaf child,
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to help us make a lasting impact for
deaf children in the Early Years.
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Your support is vital to our
campaigning and #TakingBSLForward.
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Our vision
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In the wake of the BSL Act 2022,
the BDA launched a 10-year strategy,
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“Taking BSL Forward”.
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Our goal is that every deaf baby,
child and adult in the UK will have a
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good quality of life where there are no
communication barriers and
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British Sign Language (BSL)
is provided a space to flourish.
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One of the core areas of focus in our
strategy is Early Years. We believe it is
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a vital time of a child’s development and
by adding value here, the issues affecting
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Deaf people later in life can be avoided.
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BSL in Our Hands Campaign
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We launched the ‘BSL In Our Hands’
campaign in March 2024, calling for
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the Government to fund free BSL/ISL lessons
in the home for the parents and families
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with deaf babies and children.
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There are over 50,000 deaf children
across the UK, over 90% of whom are
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born to hearing parents with no
knowledge of sign language.
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Babies start to develop language from birth.
Early language acquisition is essential
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for a child’s development and wellbeing,
yet access to sign language is limited,
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and the provision is patchy and expensive.
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We believe that offering access to
both sign - and spoken language,
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reduces the risk of deaf children
becoming language deprived.
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We believe that with the right access
to language, there's no limit to what a
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deaf child can achieve.
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Meet Lara (not her real name)
