Real lives
Welcome to the Real lives section where you can read stories and diaries written by deaf children, deaf young people, parents and volunteers, about their personal experiences of childhood deafness and their opinions about issues that concern them.
We are always keen to receive new stories, diaries and anything else you would like to share with us including photos and drawings. Perhaps you are a parent of a deaf child or you are deaf yourself? Or perhaps you worked on a volunteering project with deaf children? We would love to hear from you. Visit the My story and Day in the life sections now and find out how you can send us your story!
- Angel
- Angel is a 38 year old deaf man. He is a role model for deaf children in Croatia. He tells us about his childhood and the importance of communication.
- Snigdha Sarkar
- Indian law says that every disabled child should be able to study in a regular school if that is their choice - but Snigdha had to struggle to make sure her deaf daughter, Sneha, could get the opportunities she was entitled to. Read Snigdha's story of her life as the mother of a deaf child.
- Fatima and Saynab
Saynab is a deaf girl from Hargeisa in Somaliland. No one understood Saynab until she went to school. This is the story of how Saynab and her mother, Fatima, got to know each other.
- Dinah Achieng
- Dinah Achieng's poem You have to be deaf to understand? captures her experience of being deaf.
- Nhloso
- This is Nhloso’s story, a young deaf boy from the KwaZulu Province in South Africa.
