what's going on guys i hope you're all doing well so this is going to be a bit of a different video
and we're not actually going to be talking about anything smart home or home assistant related
but what i do want to talk to you about is a charity that's near and dear to me
and that charity is the national deaf children's society also known as the ndcs the national deaf
children's society are a leading charity that are dedicated to creating a world without barriers for
deaf children and young people they're here to support every deaf child that needs them
and no matter how well they can communicate or what their level or type of deafness is
they're there to support them and not only this they offer that support to families too
some of you may know that my middle daughter aurora is deaf my name is
so way back in 2017 a few weeks after she was born she failed her newborn screening test and
soon after this she was quickly diagnosed with permanent moderate bilateral sensory neural
hearing loss and this later progressed to severe hearing loss aurora faced many issues after her
birth we found out that she had a cleft palate but also that she was severely short-sighted but
we've been lucky enough to have access to such an amazing team of medical professionals that have
been there to support and help her in those first few weeks after finding out that aurora was deaf
the ndcs were there for us we had an officer from the ndcs come out to our home and visit us and
they had all the information and any question that you had they were there to answer and to reassure
you and just let you know that everything was going to be okay we were also lucky enough to be
able to visit one of the ndcs weekends and these weekends that they put together they're not just
a one-off thing they consistently run events and activities whether it be a family-based one or one
for children and they're all open and accessible for anyone to go to one of the ones that we
recently attended was all online and it was all about deaf children and the struggles that they
have with sleeping another event that we attended was one where you could test out and trial lots of
different bits of equipment and technology and at those events you had members of the ndcs and they
were there to answer any questions that you might have on that technology and also how you go about
using it some of the technology that aurora is currently making use of is a radio aid which she
uses at school and she also recently got access to some marvel bluetooth hearing aids which were
provided by our local audiology team what i'd like to do is to help raise money for the ndcs to help
them to support other families and deaf children but also to help make some of this technology and
equipment more widely available for use i'm going to be helping to raise this money by making use
of a gofundme page and you'll find a link to the page as well as all the information about it in
the description below with your support these things can become possible whether it's a penny
or a pound anything that you're able to donate is going to massively help with the support for these
families and the deaf children last year by making use of facebook's birthday events i was able to
raise well over 300 pounds and that was just by the kind donations from my friends and family this
year hopefully with the help of you guys we're going to be able to raise even more and just give
a massive support again to these families and deaf children thank you helping all of those people
before i wrap this up i want to just personally say thank you to the ndcs
for everything that you've done for my family and for my daughter but also for
all of the other families and the deaf children that you help support thank you
i also want to thank my amazing wife and also all the fantastic people
that support or have supported aurora just thank you if you've got a deaf child or
you've recently found out that you've got a deaf child and you want some advice or
maybe even someone to talk to then feel free to get in touch with me you'll find all of my
contact information in the description below and also all the contact information for the ndcs
alternatively if you're raising a deaf child or happen to be deaf yourself and you've got some
good advice or some interesting stories that you'd like to share with me then please do i'd
love to hear them but thank you for watching and i'll catch you in the next one cheers
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