OUR VISION

D/deaf Development Community Interest Company is a social enterprise and not for profit charitable organisation working with people having hearing loss, set up to enable training and support for D/deaf people particularly in the areas of Counselling and Advocacy.

‘Deaf’ (with a capital D) refers to people born deaf who use British Sign Language (BSL) as their first or preferred language. Written with a small ‘d’, ‘deaf’ refers to people who have become deafened after acquiring spoken English as their first language:

Hence, the title of our organisation conveys that we work equally with the full spectrum of the hearing impaired community, because ‘D/deaf’ refers to anyone who has any degree of hearing loss who uses any method of communication.