DdEF Leaflets
"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information." Barbara Sher
Ddeaf Equality Forward Publications
From this page you can access Ddeaf Equality Forward (DdEF) publications, including our leaflets, Annual Reports, and information about our online discussion forum.
Click on the links below to view or download our publications. You are free to use these leaflets for educational and training purposes, however if portions of the leaflets are used in other publications, please credit the source as Ddeaf Equality Forward.
The leaflets are in ‘pdf’ format. To view them you will need to have ‘Adobe® Reader®’ software installed on your computer (most computers have this pre installed). If you don't have the software, it can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe® website – click here to go to the site (opens in a new window).
DdEF Leaflets
- Ddeaf Definitions leaflet: explanations of the terms used to describe Ddeaf people
- Deaf Pride: Information about ‘Deaf Pride’ and the Deaf community (sign language users)
- Good Communication Guide: DdEF's good communication guide, with information about how to make sure you're understandable to Ddeaf people
- Mental Health and being Ddeaf: information about mental health and Ddeaf people, including statistics on mental health and deafness
- Positive Mental Health: tips on how to achieve positive mental health for Ddeaf people
- A Different Way of looking at things: the social model of disability: an explanation of the medical and social models of disability and how they affect disabled people
DdEF Annual Reports
Our Annual Report, which we produce each year, gives details of the work we've been doing over the past year, details of our projects and campaigns, and also our policy documents and our constitution, the rules of the organisation.
There is also information in our Annual Report about our method of working, and our policy documents. For further information about our Annual Report or any of our policies, please contact us. The reports are in the ‘PDF’ format – and will open in a new window.
DdEF Online Forum
Our online discussion forum is a place where Ddeaf people can get together to talk about issues surrounding Ddeafness and to ‘meet’ other Ddeaf people. The forum is easy to use and also allows registered users to send private messages to each other. There's also a special area on the forum for DdEF members to discuss DdEF business matters.
Information on how to use our online discussion forum:
- Quick Start Guide: basic information on how to register on the forum and post messages
- Forum User Guide: a guide to the features of the online discussion forum with screen shots and detailed instructions
The Manual Spelling Alphabet
The following link will take you to the website ‘Sign Community’, the website of the BDA (British Deaf Association, where you can download the BSL manual spelling alphabet which you can print, email, or even use as a wallpaper on your computer, and a font which you can install on your PC which enables you to ‘type’ in the symbols of the finger spelling alphabet.
Manual spelling alphabet and finger spelling font
