Access to TV - celebrating a milestone, but still more work to do!
The BBC have recently achieved 100% subtitling on all of its 7 main channels. This is fantastic news! Imagine what a difference this has made to deaf children. Susan Daniels, Chief Executive of NDCS gave a speech about her views and personal experiences as a deaf person of a lack of subtitleling at the celebration event for the BBC. You can read this speech on the NDCS campaigns pages, as well as the NDCS position on this.
The BBC’s achievement is fantastic, but there is still a lot of work to do to make sure that subtitles are more widely available. Professionals who work with deaf children have an important role to play here. Professionals who work with deaf children will have good understanding of the needs of deaf children, and why it is so important that deaf people have access to the TV programmes that they want to watch. NDCS is running a campaign to work towards better subtitling, and you can get involved by writing to your MP, or encouraging parents to fill out a short survey to tell us about their experiences.
I am sure that many of you have your own views on this, why not leave a comment to let me know what you think!
