Welcome to our new project

  • Welcome to our new project “Deaf Culture, Heritage and Diversity”!
  • Our goal is to help deaf youth and youth workers learn more about Deaf Studies.
  • Deaf studies means: learning about deaf people, their community, culture, and sign language.
  • We want them to understand and respect deaf culture, heritage, and diversity better.
  • We hope to give deaf youth workers the tools and information they need to support deaf youth.
  • Heritage means: the special things from the past that we keep and remember, like stories and traditions.
  • Diversity means: having different kinds of people, like different cultures, languages, or backgrounds.

“Deaf Culture, Heritage and Diversity”!

“Nothing about us without us!”

Nihil de nobis, sine nobis!

James Charlton

a disability rights activist and author, who used it as the title of his 1998 book.

The first motto dates back to Poland in the 1500s.