When accessibility isn't prioritised, this can be the reality of being deaf at school - BBC

Lol this aged poorly since this became a reality now 😂

I can understand what this kid is going through because I am going through the same exact thing. I am a senior, 64, and just lost 100% of my hearing 3 weeks ago. I am the only deaf person living in an assisted living facility with everyone who can hear. There is no help for a deaf person here. I do not have access to anything. I feel so isolated!

No way this is real!

i wanna be friends with this kid so bad

Now I’m assuming the kid isn’t actually deaf, his acting was absolutely phenomenal!

Whats the move called

I dont know bsl or any sign language, but I was reading theyre lips, the first translator was just level 1 of bsl? how can it be?

Kindergarten and first class was in a blur _ no hearing aid no signlanguage - just get sent out to speech therapy for a couple years- hated the cafeteria couldnt concentrate on any conversations - got the ok to eat in the hall or spend the lunch hour in the library

Woke show

As someone who is profoundly deaf this upsets me greatly because it does go on.

As an autistic person, I can understand it only too well.

This was exactly my life in school in the 80s. It SUUUUUUUCKED.

yeah pretty much where what why and how i grew up with society and social with hearing people

My government teacher is deaf. Not fully, but enough to need a cochlear implant. There’s a student in that class who’s deaf as well. She always has an interpreter. There’s actually like 3 or 4 full time interpreters on campus. Everyone at my school treats the disabled well, but not with pity (or at least not that I’ve seen). I know that treating people with pity just screams “I think you’re lesser than me so I need to go easy on you because you’re weak” (I’m not disabled but because of my anxious and shy personality I tend to get treated as if I’m some super sensitive person or something). Sometimes I feel like I’m treating a disabled person inequally by being overly nice or nervous when I speak but that’s kind of just how I am with everyone (but also making the embarrassing mistake of talking to the interpreter instead of to the deaf person sometimes. I never want anyone to feel like they’re not a person or anything)

Idk why I wrote this comment. Just thinking out my personal experience I guess.

This is what it’s like now I can’t imagine what my mom went thru in the 70s-80s :(

I had a wonderful interaction with a deaf lady when I was a cashier. I couldn’t sign, she couldn’t lip read.
So instead I got pen and paper and wrote clear and big just in case she had sight issues too. The exchange went well and she thanked me for being patient and even resorting to pen and paper.
And also for telling the person in the line behind complaining at the hold up to shush and wait as the lady needed extra assistance.
I don’t think she got what I said (the deaf lady) but I think she understood my facial expression, demeanour and throat looking like I shouted over (if that makes sense).

I’ve done the same for people complaining at older people with shaking hands or learning disabilities struggling to count their change.
I don’t care if you’re in a rush, I’m not rushing them, fu€k off and buy your stuff elsewhere if you don’t like it.

thats horrible to not give the special tools a deaf person needs and limiting him isn't right its frustrating and sad I would have been upset!

This video hurts to watch because it happened to ME. At university they did not organise my disability funding and I had to interrupt my studies. Turning up to tutorials was the most humiliating experience of my life and not being able to hear whilst people are sniggering and laughing at me

As if I needed another push to learn BSL, I’m definitely looking up courses now.

Luca is such a good actor and I’m so glad Waterloo road is addressing this.

On a side note- Luka is so handsome bruh

This is amazingly poignant and well delivered. It’s about deafness, but for anyone with disabilities this hits home, as someone with ADHD and ASD, I can heavily relate to this.

they need to make sign language classes in every school

I hope Luca is in all the seasons in Waterloo Road xx

Luca is a good actor in Waterloo Road xx

it’s so frustrating being disabled in public schools. i’m in university and it’s truly not much better. i’m sick of the “there’s nothing we can do” mentality.

I honestly think sign language should be taught at every school. It's an important life skill, just like Maths and English.

This has been a recurring theme in my educational history at traditional English schools from 1930 to 1980: teachers focused on "lip reading." If a student used sign language, the teacher would physically restrict their hands. This often made me feel sleepy in class.
Not help a Profoundly Deaf person, who does not have to receive more words in their head.
Lost everything behind, compared to how hearing children take over the words in their head to create more answers.

These mainstream school teachers made me laugh; they do not simply use a voice microphone for vocabulary speech. How can they not hear the word "receptive" in your mind?

Exactly what is like, but I was not given a hearing aid or someone to communicate, tough, suck it up.

That boy is did a really good job in this.

As someone who struggles with this it’s like we don’t exist bc people don’t understand what we need

Wiwowo❤❤❤

Awh him at the lunch table 😭😭😭

CI users who refuse to learn sign language are banned from joining deaf clubs. You need to learn sign language to make friends. GET IT? DORK and DUH!

This poor boy belongs in a deaf school. I know it's a TV show. But in real life it would've been the same situation.

It is soo sad to know that in a progressive country like England deaf people have to still fight for inclusivity.

In Australia we have a deaf school connected to the main school. And they teach auslan in mainstream school.

Watching this on mute for immersion.

This is so true😢

Why don't they teach BSL in schools from a young age? It'll be a damn lot more useful than French.

That video really got me. I'm hearing, but I'm learning Austrian Sign Language, because I wanna be able to talk to deaf people, at least in my own country :)

I used to have a student in a preschool classroom who I was told was "nonverbal" with cerebral palsy. After having him in the room for over a month, it was obvious he understood most basic instructions, but we rarely ever got more than one-word responses, if that. Until one day, we were in small groups and it was a quiet activity. I had his attention and asked a question directly towards him which required a response. I waited. I waited a bit longer. Then he spoke, a full, multi-part, clearly enunciated, polite sentence. The other instructors were shocked and almost didn’t believe me when I told them. Later, I was told I was trying to teach him things that were too difficult by expecting him to be able to learn (just to learn, I knew it would take time and practice and experimentation) to zip his own jacket and open his own milk carton. But he mastered both before kindergarten. I knew he probably wouldn’t have this time or level of help later on in school, which is sad. But it also shows that people can be capable of so much more, if we just give them the opportunity to really learn in the ways they need.

I use captions and lip read to support my brain to process what I am hearing. I tried to learn some ASL, but all the free apps are awful.

As a girl that that was in Special Ed all my life, and that used to be in a starter SpEd high school classroom, we had a kid that was full deaf and when he wanted to communicate, they would just give him a AAC tablet to spell and direct him to press the voice button when he wanted to say it, but one of the teachers could sign it's just that she was just too busy with her work, so other teachers had to deal with him but none of them knew how to sign. Some of the teachers that joined Special Ed, don't even have licenses of actually teaching they just get accepted into the job and that's what scares me. And unlicensed teachers have been going around unnoticed.

This was so heartbreaking to see, I cant imagine what it would be like. Should have gave him the rest of the day off to go home and study until the next da, he is very lonely.

I know this is fiction - but the BSL1 lady is proper thick to think she can help.

Or you can go back to the school for the deaf... Accessibility doesn't mean the whole world has to cater to the needs of a few... Especially when the few have a separate space that caters to only them...

People think I'm racist, rude, mean to others but I'm not. I love people. I love helping others. I just need a chance to be myself again. To finally not be judged but be me. To feel free being myself again.

So... two teachers that both do sign language and he still fails...

I'm thinking his dumb not deaf...

I was in main stream school in the 90's and back at college, things have not changed it us extremely hard to fit in. People forget that hearingbaids are already amplified to ask you to wear a radioaid is like add three times the sound, enough to shake your brain it's is god awful feeling a hearing person would never understand ever