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JDA has installed
acoustic clouds
in Emily’s school,
so she can hear
more easily
in class and
have enough
energy to do her
homework with
her mum!
We continued to run our busy hearing support
helpline, technology room and hearing therapy
sessions and classes to help people manage
their hearing loss. And we’ve introduced more
services to ensure people living with hearing
loss can enjoy life to the full — from newborn
babies to people losing their hearing in later life.
Having expanded JDA Family Services, we’ve
been able to give Jewish parents even more
expert support to help them through the ups and
downs of raising a deaf child. Our Family Fun Day
was a rip-roaring success and our new DClubs
for 9-14 year olds and DClub Mini for 5-8 year
olds have really taken o昀昀. The children are loving
regularly taking part in exciting activities tailored
to their needs while getting to know other Jewish
deaf children of their age.
By improving the acoustics and sound quality
in deaf pupils’ classrooms and creating brilliant
new Deaf Awareness materials with top tips
for their teachers, we’re giving Jewish deaf
children every opportunity to be included and
succeed at school.
We are incredibly proud of Padraic and Andrew,
our Engage team, for launching the powerful
White Paper ‘Hearing Loss in Care Homes —
A Call to Action’. This evidences how failing
to address the hearing needs in care homes
increases risks to older people’s physical and
mental health.
The Paper makes recommendations for care homes
to follow to enable their residents with hearing loss
to engage and connect with the people around
them and live life as fully as possible.
Our latest JDA o昀昀ering is Hearing Matters in
our Community. While continuing to support
care providers, Padraic and Andrew are now also
busy helping Jewish community organisations
to become more inclusive to deaf and hard
of hearing people needing to access their
services. Their expertise is in great demand, and
we’re delighted that all the organisations we have
contacted are keen to join our call to action to
make the Jewish community inclusive to people
with hearing loss.
A big thank you to each and every one of our
supporters, without whom JDA would not be here
for the 2,500 people who bene昀椀t from our services
each year.
Thank you to Trudy, our Trustees and our
amazing sta昀昀 and volunteers who, as always,
have worked so incredibly hard. (I wish I could
mention each of you individually — you deserve it!)
We are truly blessed to have such special people
working together to sustain our loving, caring,
wonderful JDA community.
I wish you all health and happiness always —
and may the coming year bring peace for us all.
Sue
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