About our book:

You Can Do It!

FYD - Friends for Young Deaf - means many things to every individual who was fortunate to experience what it had to offer.

For us, here at D & H Trailblazers, this is our DNA, expressed in our key values.

Our organisation was founded after the publication of this book.

Morag: FYD was unique for one thing, the partnership between deaf and hearing people – it is what Denis Uttley called the ‘friendship insurance’ – the development of life-skills and socialisation with hearing peers.

At first Denis was concerned for those Deaf children who were in schools for the Deaf who were without hearing peers as friends.

But we all soon came to the realisation that even mainstreamed young people were cut off from their hearing peers because integration was not planned out and constructed in the most efficient manner to have a positive impact on deaf children and their peers.

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