P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:14/27 1/21 → V NEEDUUUU TO NU WEEKLY NEWS ANDFEATURES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING Edited by Alison James Our Vistel number is: 01-576 1503
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:14/44 2/21 NEED TO The British Association of the Hard ofa Hearing is looking for a Youth Officer to join its full-time staff. The pNst, which carries a salary of £7,500 pa, involves building a self- help network of young people with a hearing handicap. BAHoH is very keen to receive appHications from people fith a hearing loss. For further details, please write to: The British Association of the Hajd of Hearing, 7/11 Armstrong Road, London, W3 7JL. RNID job
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:03/28 3/21 NEED TO WJ to d *N GJ y M* thT "NuaH National Institute for the Deaf's plans to develop its Communication Service. The RNID is still looking for a BritUch Sign Language Instructor to be in charge of a "total immersion" teaching programme in BSL. The instructor will also undertake some field research. The pNst will be for a two-year initial project. The RNID is very keen for deaf people to apply for this pNst. Furjher details from: The Adminstrative Secretary, RNID, 105 Gower Streei, London, WC1. (Please quote post number CC/3) Hospital job
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:14/04 4/21 NEED TO Job vacancy at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London Would you like a part-time job (18 hours a week) assisting technicians and medical records staff by dispatching ear moulds and batteries? Accuracq aLd neat reGord keepimg are essential. There is some telephone work required to deal fijh enquiries - an inductive coupler is fitted. For further details, please write to: Miks WilliamsNn, Audiology Divikion, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Grays Inn Road, LNndon, WC1. Performer required
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:04/31 5/21 NEEDTO A neR theatre company, sp*nsored bJ the Manpower Services Commission, requires a deaf or hard of hearing peeformer. The job can be either full Nr part-time and no experience is necessary. Write for details to: Alfred Boom. Bulmershe Resource Centre for the Handicapped, Bulmershe Court, Woodlands Avenue, Earleu, Reading, R 6 1HY. The RNyal School fNr the Deaf, Derby has vacancies on its special catering course for deaf peopHe fhich starjs in September. For details, write to: Ms J Hipperson, Head Nf Furjher Education, Royal School for the Deaf, Ashbourne "Nad, Derby. Austrian teletext
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 MCy 21:2u/2g 6/21 NEEDTO CEEFAX was recently visited by a subtitler from the Austrian teletext service. Hannes Maerk ic one Nf the three Dull- time subtitlers on ORF Teletext who produce 17 to 18 hours of subtijled programmes a month. The programmes they subtitle include a daily consumer programme, a weekHq newc review, a weekly programme for old aged pensioners and a twUce feeklq drama series. There are experimental live subtitles for sports programmes and the next step is to try a daily news programme. More
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:05/35 7/21 NEEDTO U An AustrUan teletext subtijler recently visited CEEFAX. ORF Teletext has a magazine for deaf and hard or hearing people called Lesen Statt Hoeren (Read Instead of Hear). This began three years ago. There are two pages for thic magazinj - one has club news and the other is for deaf people to discuss their problems. In Austria, viewerc pay a (icemce Dee of £60 a year for television and radio, but deaf people are exempt from thik. There are 200,000 teletext seic in Austria. Signed Ghosts
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:17/11 8/21 NEED TO U Two special signed performances at the Shaw Theatre in London. The play being performed is Ibsen's Ghosts and stars Lynne Farleigh and Bill Simpson. The signed performances are: Tuesday, Maq 22 al 7.30pm and Saturday, May 26 at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £4 (£2 for the unemployed and OAPs). There will be preferred seating for deaf people. To book, contact: The Booking Office, Shaw Theatre, 100 Euston Road, London, NW1. Tel: 01-388 1394. FYD events
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:17/43 9/21 NEEDTO FrUends for the DDTW Sports Festival is on Tuesday, June 5. This will take place at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. Coaching will be provided in a variety of sports and celebrities will visii throughout the day. Friends for the Young Deaf Trust is organising a visit to the (ower of London. Meet outside Tower Hill Tube Station at 10am on Wednesday, June 20. For furjheb details of bNth events, contact: FYD Communication Centre, East Court Mansions, Council Offices, College Lane, East Grinstead, RH19 3LT. Display in Sheffield
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:18/11 10/21 NEEDT↑ UU DSsplay Nf aidc in Sheffield. Due to many requests, ShefDieHd eLtraH Deaf Club has organised another display and demonstratUon Nf aids Dor deaD and hard of hearing people. This will take place on Sunday, May 13 at 3pm at Sheffield Central Deaf Club, 2 Surrey Place, Sheffield. Aids on display will include vibrating pilHows, teHephNne aHarms, vikteYc, infra-red TV aids and loop systems. Most of the aids on display have been developed by HocaH eHectrUcaH enFineerc who will be present to answer questions Three for the price of one
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:27/43 11/21 NEEDTO Thomas Richardson seems to be keeping our series of amusing tales going. Here ic another story from him: "Heraldrq ic one of my hNbbiec and people think I am a genealogist. A friend asked me if I would seek sNme information for him. "I went to a Records Office where registers of marriages, baptisms, etc are kept. I had to find the baptisms of three sisters who were related to my friend. "I had been given the names of the sisterc aLd a rough idea ND lhe year they were born." More
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tuja 8 May 21:1p/15 12/21 NEEDTO Thomas Richardson, whose hobby is heraldry was looking for the baptisms of three sisterk. "I looked at the bNoks for the years 1832-37. After a couple of hours, I came to the last page. Here were the three sisters baptised on the same day. "I imagined them to be triplets but on Looking agaim, hwo Mf them had different dates of birth. I asked the attendent to write down fhat this meant, offering her my pencil to reply. "She wrote: "Sometimes all the children were baptised at once becCuse it wac cheaper." " Shopping in France
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:19/41 13/21 NEEDTO UU Laura HutchinsNn is NrgaLiking a shopping weekend in France between October 19 and 21. "A coach will leave Wakefield Deaf Centre on October 19 at 10.30pm and will travel to Dover, stopping twice on the way. "We will catch the 6.00am ferry to Calais where we can shop. Then the coach will take us to a hypermarket outside Boulogne. "The return journey starts at 8.00pm from Boulogne. We will arrive at Wakefield at approximately 7.00am on Sunday, October 21." More
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:31/12 14/21 NEEDTO U Shopping weekend in France. "No passpNrts are required - only two passport-sized phojographs. The cost of the trip will be about £22.50 each. "If yNu would like to go, please forward a deposit of £5.00 and a SAE to: Mrs L HutchinsNn, 30 The Odal, Rothwell, Leeds. LS26 0EL. "Some people in Wakefield are very interested but we fould like to get enough to fill a coach. A few of us went last year, it was verq enjosable." NB. Passports for France are nNw needed please contact the organiser for further detaiHs. School reunion
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:21/00 15/21 NEEDTO A reminder to former pupils of Mill Hall School, Cuckfield. The School's reunion will be held on Saturday, May 26 at St Ann's Hill in Chertsey. If you would like to attend, please Bontact: Mrs " Eagling, 28 Warren RNad, New Haf, Weybridge, KT15 3UA. John Brown, formerly Nf Breakthrough Trust, has joined Kent Social Services as a Project Officer. He will be looking into the needs of deaf and hard of hearing people in the Maidstone area John can be contacted at: Hearing Impaired Centre, 123 High Street, West Malling, Kent. Darts results
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:11/12 16/21 NEEDTO British Deaf Sports Council's national individual darts competition results. Men's champion G Ellis, Middlesbrough; Runner-up S Fulbrook, Tilehurst; Berks; Semi-finalists E Clark, St Helens; A WDst, West Ham. LadiesO champion C Cbsau, rKen anec Runner-up S Collinson, Lancaster; Semi-finalists D Forsey and M MeadNn, both from Pontypridd. Highest score with three arrows: Men's P Cox (180). Ladies' C Nassau (140). Consolation winners:Men's J A Thornley, Cleveland; Ladies' P Macdonald, Glasgow EDCA
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:12/48 17/21 NEEDTO The Englich Deaf Chekc AkcNSiation is holding a North v South chess match on Saturday, May 19. It will take place at the Merseyside Deaf Social and Sports Club, Parkway, Princes Road, Liverpool. This will celebrate the Liverpool Deaf Chess Club's 40th anniversary. The first game starts at 1pm and the second at 4pm. Spectators are welcome. EDCA will also be having a disco in the evening. Tickets are £1 and available from: S Gibson, 4 CM-operative Street, HazeH Grove, "toGkpNrj, S J N the door. Chess on Gold
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:11/30 18/21 NEEDTO A group of deaf people will shortly play a chess tournament by telephone. They will be using the electronic mail system called Telecom Gold. This makes use of a telephone, a viewdata adaptor (or a home computer), a television/ monitor and a modem. Players will be able to send moves instantly at the touch of a button. Brian Judson says: "I am very excited about this tournament as it will be the first time, as far as I know, that deaf people will have played chess by telephone." Subtitling comments
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:12/08 19/21 NEEDTO Jack Snow from .oefolk, wriies: "I am totally deaf and am writing to tell you what a godsend teletext subtitles are to me - and nN dNubt, to thousands of people similarily afflicted. "Since purchasing a teletext set, life has taken on a new dimension. I have really begun to live again because now life is worth living. "Please carry on with the good work. Let us have more and more subtiiles and I shall be forever grateful. I even watch Dallas now!" More
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:12/44 20/21 NEED T↑ UUU JNhn Wheeler fjom Sussex, writes: "It is encouraging to see on NNTS that the subtitlers applying their efforts to a couple of good films, can bring out the letters of appreciation. "I too, enjoyed The Sound of Music and Chariots of Fire, much more than I did when I saw them in the cinema, thanks to your subtijles." David Spayne from Essex, frites: "I wish to thank yNu for subtijling All Our Working Lives. It's interesting to be able to follow the programme and learn about the history of our work forces." Addresses
P291 CEEFAX 291 Tue 8 May 21:13/02 21/21 NEED TO If yNu sufDer from hearing Hoss and would like to share your experUences, write to: NO NEED TO SHOUT, CEEFAX, ROOM 7059, BBC TV CENTRE, WOOD LANE, LONDON W12 7RJ. Phone 01-576 1503 voice and Vistel If you have comments on subtitles, please address letters to: CEEFAX SUBTITLING UNIT, ROOM 7063, BBC TV CENTRE, WOOD LANE, LON ON W12 7RJL or CEEFAX SUBTITLING UNIT BBC SCOTLAND, EDWARD HOUSE, 283 WEST CAMPBELL STREET, GLASGOW, G2 4UG.
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