Education of the deaf - Inaction is a national disgrace

The Government established the Advisory Committee on the Education of the Deaf in 2002, but this was another case of the old story of setting up a committee to deal with problems and then ignoring its findings.

The optimism that greeted the formation of the advisory committee five years ago has long since dissipated.

The committee was disbanded after three years and now, two years later, people are still waiting for even the publication of the committee’s final report. As a result deaf children have become more marginalised.