Welcome to the
Grampian Deaf Children’s Society
We are working to support deaf children, young people and their families across Aberdeen, Grampian and the North East of Scotland.
🥳We held our launch event on Saturday 21st June 2025! Thank you to everyone who turned out to celebrate with us!
🗓️ We are now looking forward to an exciting program of events older children, younger children, and parents and carers too!
✏️ Check out what’s coming up below and if something appeals – please indicate your interest by filling in the form for that event!
We also encourage you to take some time to browse our site to find out more about us, and to check out some potentially useful resources too.
Also, if you would like to get to know us better, you can apply to join our private Facebook group which serves as a community for advice, support, and information sharing.
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Vision
Our Vision
A world without barriers for every deaf child and young person.
Mission
Our Mission
To overcome the social and educational barriers that hold back deaf children in the Grampian area covering Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
To support deaf children and young people along with their families and friends.
Our Latest News 📰
We bring you the latest five posts from our Facebook Page once per day.
Please visit us on Facebook if you want to read more, and follow us there!
Five top tips. One goal: a smoother, more confident start to the school year for you and your deaf child. From meeting your deaf child's teacher to keeping support plans up to date, these practical ideas will help you make sure your child gets the right support from day one in the classroom. From more advice and information on going back to school, contact our Helpline or visit our website for resources and tools to share with your child's school 👉 go.ndcs.org.uk/fbbacktoschooltoptips #BackToSchool #Deaf #DeafChildren #Deafness #DeafEducation #DeafAwareness #PrimarySchool #SecondarySchool
📚✏️ How parents & teachers can prepare for deaf children starting/going back to school.
Classrooms can be difficult acoustic environments. What are some ways to improve access to classroom listening? Swipe through to learn some recommendations and share any advice with others in the comment section below! ⬇️🦻🚌
🎳 Ten Pin Bowling Event 🎳
The holidays are flying in, here we are half way there. We just wanted to share some beneficial information from the team at Audibility, Perception and cognition laboratory.
Grampian Deaf Children’s Society
Grampian Deaf Children’s Society
Credit to audibility, perception and cognition laboratory.
Grampian Deaf Children’s Society
Credit to @The Audibility, perception & cognition laboratory
Give them a follow as they share useful tips
Grampian Deaf Children’s Society
We were very fortunate to be selected and awarded a small grant from the Garioch Charities Shop A huge thank you to them—this support allowed us to organise and cover the costs of the ten-pin bowling event.
13 children and their parents had an incredible time bowling, enjoying the play zone, and socialising with peers. For some, this was the first time they had met other children using hearing technology. It was truly an emotional and special moment.
Grampian Deaf Children’s Society
Upcoming Events 📅
Check out what’s coming up!
Signing up for your first event?: Please tell us a wee bit more about your family group by filling in our Membership Form.
It’s free, and the information you share helps us plan future events!
Family BSL Classes 👋
These classes are currently full. Please let us know if you would be interested in any future courses!
On Saturday mornings this autumn we’re running two classes to help children and their families become more familiar with British Sign Language.
- Class 1 – Family Classes For Preschool (10:00 am to 11:00 am)
- Class 2 – Family Classes For Early Years (11:00am to 12:00 noon)
Where: Bridge of Don Baptist Church Centre
Dates:
- Saturday 6th September 2025
- Saturday 13th September 2025
- Saturday 27th September 2025
- Saturday 4th October 2025
- Saturday 25th October 2025
- Saturday 1st November 2025
- Saturday 8th November 2025
Family BSL Classes For Preschool and Early Years
Free and open to deaf children and their siblings based in Grampian. Teaching will be tailored to those who attend. Therefore, these classes should be suitable for those who have no experience as well as those who have started using BSL.
Classes taught by BSL teacher Mags McNulty
⭐ We are grateful to the National Deaf Children’s Society for their funding support for these classes. ⭐
Older Children & Young People Interested In BSL?
As a charity, we are interested in organising future BSL classes for older children and young people.
If this is something that would interest you, or a member of your family – we’d love to hear from you!
Visit our Connect with Us page, drop us a message telling us a little bit your situation.
We would like to understand who may be interested, and where in Grampian / North East Scotland you are based so that we can plan accordingly!
Who We Support:
Deaf & Partially Hearing Children
Deaf & Partially Hearing Young People
Their Families, Friends & Wider Community
Thank you to everyone that attended the launch event on Saturday 21st June!
It was a tremendous turn out and we are overwhelmed at the support for Grampian Deaf Children’s Society 
Well done to all our kiltwalkers who took part in the 2025 Aberdeen Kiltwalk.
A huge thank you to everyone for your generous donations and support!
Together we raised around £5000 which will go a long way to supporting the society and it’s work!
Babies are born deaf every day in the UK
Of deaf children are born to hearing parents
Deaf children in Scotland
We’re Sharing Deaf Stories:
“Hey! I have created an instagram page to share my story about being deaf and spread deaf awareness! I hope to inspire younger deaf people and make them realise being deaf isn’t something to hide but embrace 💗 please feel free to follow and share x”