Not sure if this is in the right section (couldnt quite decide where best to put it) Gonna be a long one I reckon so here goes.

Right my family have always done respite foster care for people with special needs and one girl who spent a lot of her time with us (who I call my sister) is deaf. I started learning sign language and picked it up really quickly at the age of 6. Since then I have been almost fluent (although my signing is heavily northen accented which I realised when I started studying my signing exams down south).

Anyway so from know a lot of people who are deaf and realising things that most of us take for granted they can struggle with, one of my dreams is to specialise in being a midwife for the deaf. I know there is a very big deaf community in West Sussex in Worthing and Littlehampton in particular. So would anyone know how I would become involved and even if this would be possible?

I realise that I would need to be a midwife (that dreams in sight for qualifying in 2011). But I guess most deaf ladies have interpreters with their midwives. I am going to talk to the brighton deaf society about it too as they offered me a job previously and they had a lot of info into the struggles and maybe they would know.

Just wondered if anyone else may have any knowledge of it???
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