This applies particularly to young people at residential schools. One young man who was about to take his GCSEs says he gets depressed at the weekend because his family can't use sign language and he doesn't have any deaf friends living nearby. "I'm worried that when I leave school I won't have anyone to talk to and won't be able to get a job," he says.
His fears are valid. According to the charity for deaf people RNID, formerly the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, employers are eight times more likely to employ someone with a criminal record than someone who is deaf.
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