Six deaf children are to speak at the House of Commons to highlight the need for greater early support to boost deaf children's communication skills and life chances.
The children, aged seven to 16, are winners of Auditory Verbal UK’s (AVUK) creative writing competition and will be reading out their short stories, poems and diary entries at the charity’s Power of Speech event at Westminster on 14 June.
The performances aim to highlight the children’s potential in literacy, gained through the support they have received through AVUK’s auditory verbal therapy programme, compared with the levels of deaf children generally.
