{"id":2036,"date":"2022-05-04T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2022-03-23T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:59:35","slug":"deaf-awareness-week-4-9-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/04\/deaf-awareness-week-4-9-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf Awareness Week 4-9 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"336\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/deaf3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/deaf3.jpg 336w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/deaf3-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 85vw, 336px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK alone, there are over 10 million people living with some form of hearing loss, whether it is mild or profound.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deaf Awareness Week is all about promoting the positive aspects of living with deafness. This event aims to raise awareness of the isolation that deaf people can occasionally experience, and promote the importance of social inclusion around the deaf community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/sign-language.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2041\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The event also raises awareness of BSL (British Sign Language), which is a language used by many people in the UK who are born deaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UK Council on Deafness https:\/\/ukcod.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK alone, there are over 10 million people living with some form of hearing loss, whether it is mild or profound.&nbsp; Deaf Awareness Week is all about promoting the positive aspects of living with deafness. This event aims to raise awareness of the isolation that deaf people can occasionally experience, and promote the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/04\/deaf-awareness-week-4-9-may-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deaf Awareness Week 4-9 May 2022&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}