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.
They also aim to challenge public perceptions that deaf children cannot speak as well as hearing children, after a YouGov survey found that more than a third of adults have no idea that a child born profoundly deaf can learn to listen and speak as well as a hearing child.
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