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Our Mission

The mission of CIDP is to promote core Christian values by working with, enabling and serving the Deaf people of Ireland by

CIDP will pursue its mission by working in partnership with Deaf people, with other organisations working to serve the interests of Deaf people, and with public bodies charged with responsibility to provide services for Deaf people.


Deaf Village Workshops

The architect (Hansel Bauman) from Gallaudet University in Washington is available to attend three workshops on the 24th, 25th and 26th of August in relation to finalising the design and the detailed specifications of the Deaf Village Project Phase one. The intention is that by the end of the three workshops the Project architects and the rest of the design team would have enough information to prepare the detailed documents to be used in the tender process. It is intended that these designs and specifications would be made available to companies wishing to tender a price to build the Village. The details of the three workshops are set out below and it is hoped that people can make themselves available to attend the workshops most relevant to their organisation.

Workshop one

This workshop will take place on Tuesday the 24th of August in St. Vincent’s Centre top floor bridge room beginning at 1pm with refreshments and ending at 5pm. This is an open meeting for all Deaf organisations and wider Deaf community to meet with Hansel Bauman (Gallaudet University) and John MacPolin (O’Mahony Pike - Village architect). The meeting will begin with a presentation by John MacPolin of the current design and specifications of the Village. Hansel Bauman will follow this with a presentation on Deaf space design and review the current design and specifications of the Deaf Village Phase one in that context. Hansel will then facilitate a workshop to discuss the current Village plans from a Deaf perspective and explore ways to ensure that Deaf space design requirements are met in the context of the budget available.

Workshop two

This workshop will take place on Wednesday the 25th of August in St. Vincent’s Centre top floor bridge room beginning at 1pm with refreshments and ending at 5pm. This meeting is for the members of the Project Development Committee only, this includes the IDS, IDSA, DDA, CIDP and DeafHear.ie. This meeting will review the current designs and specifications and then hear feedback from Hansel Bauman in relation to the Phase one plans, also the feedback from the meeting of the Deaf community the previous day and in this context give direction to the final draft design and specifications for the Village.

Workshop three

This workshop will take place on Thursday the 26th of August in St. Vincent’s Centre top floor bridge room beginning at 1pm with refreshments and ending at 5pm. This meeting is an open meeting for all Deaf organisations interested in the sports facilities in the Deaf Village. The meeting will be addressed by Hansel Bauman in relation to Deaf sports design, John MacPolin on the final plans and an independent sports consultant who has experience in designing and operating a number of similar sports centres in Ireland. The intention is to finalise the design and specifications for the sports facilities in the Village Project at this workshop. These are three critically important workshops which will set down the final draft of the design and specifications for the Deaf Village Project. If they are successful this will mean that the design of the Village will be user friendly, cost effective and a modal of best practice in design for future Deaf and hearing related projects.

CIDP Statement following the Publication of the Ryan Commission Report

The recently published Ryan Commission report details the shocking abuse of Deaf children especially in St. Joseph's Institution. The number of cases and the types of abuse indicate that this was endemic in the Institution. Bad as this abuse was, it was compounded by the fact that the children abused were Deaf and without a voice.

It is no consolation to anyone including the victims and the current Board of the Catholic Institute for Deaf People (CIDP) (now the trustees of the Schools and Managers of the Residential Centres), that this happened in a different era and under different Management. It still happened, clearly people knew that children were abused and nothing was done to protect them. To all of those people, the current Management apologises unreservedly.
Read full Statement


Funded by the Ryan Commission CIDP produced a DVD in ISL featuring the three chapters on the Deaf schools and the Executive Summary contained in the Ryan Commission report.To view the ISL translation of the Ryan Commission on the chapters of Beechpark, St. Mary's Cabra, St. Joseph's Cabra and the Executive Summary click here

 

Upcoming Events

Public Consultation re Planning Permission for Muslim site
Monday 16th August ,
7.30pm in St. Joseph’s School Hall

Village Project Consultation Workshop 1
Tuesday 24th August ,
from 1pm – 5pm in St. Vincent’s Centre

Village Project Consultation Workshop 2
Wednesday 25th August ,
from 1pm – 5pm in St. Vincent’s Centre

Village Project Consultation Workshop 3
Thursday 26th August,
from 1pm – 5pm in St. Vincent’s Centre

Fundraising Committee Meeting
Monday 23rd August,
12.30pm in St. Vincent’s Centre

CIDP Board Meeting Monday
Monday 6th September,
7pm in St. Vincent's Centre

Education Partnership Group Meeting
Thursday 9th September,
12.30pm in St. Vincent’s Centre

ARC Steering Committee Meeting
Tuesday 14th September,
9.15am in St. Mary’s Rosary School Hall

Management Team Meeting
Thursday 16th September,
10am in St. Vincent’s Centre

PR Committee Meeting
Friday 17th September,
10am in St. Joseph’s Residence Cabra

Amalgamation Review Committee Meeting
Thursday 23rd September,
10am in St. Mary’s Rosary School Hall

Designated Liaison Persons Meeting
Thursday 23rd September 2010,
12noon in St. Joseph’s Residence Cabra

CIDP Strategy Day
Saturday 25th September ,
9am in The Hilton Hotel Kilmainham


St. Joseph’s Review Committee Meeting
Tuesday 28th September 2010,
4.30pm in St. Vincent’s Centre 

Ryan Commission Report

    

Amalgamation

The Amalgamation Review Committee (ARC) has agreed the setting up of a Steering Committee to produce an agreed future Education modal of amalgamated school(s). Judith King an independent facilitator has been employed to assist in the process and the three unions have joined the ARC. A workplan was has been agreed for the Steering Committee and this was presented to the ARC in mid December 09 and the staff forum on the 21st of December 09. The workplan and the same initial analysis can be downloaded from this site. The Steering Committee has been meeting monthly since Easter 2010 and should be in a position by mid October 2010 to present a proposal for the future of the Deaf schools.



Eoin O'Mahony's summary report
Presentation to Parents in Schools
Draft Terms of Reference
Letter on New Committee
ARC Members
Contact Details Form
Analysis of Parental Questionnaire
Minutes of the Amalgamation Review Committee Meeting, Dec 2008
Minutes of the Amalgamation Review Committee Meeting, Feb 2009
Minutes of the Amalgamation Review Committee Meeting, March 2009
Minutes of the Amalgamation Review Committee Meeting, May 2009
Minutes of the Amalgamation Review Committee Meeting, May 2009
Minutes of Amalgamation Review Committee meeting - September 2009
Minutes of Amalgamation Review Committee meeting - November 2009
Minutes of Amalgamation Review Committee Meeting - April 2010

 

Useful Links

Anne Sullivan Centre
Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College
Deaf Hear
Irish Deaf Society
Irish Deaf Youth Association
Irish Hard of Hearing Association
The Dublin Deaf Scouts
The Irish Deaf Sports Association
Sign Language Interpreting Service - SLIS
Bridge Interpreting


Looking Forward

Following on from the recent Conference on the Education of Deaf and hard of hearing children in Croke Park, a number of parents met together to discuss the possibility of establishing a Nationwide Parents Forum.

In order to discuss the usefulness of such a parents forum and its possible remit a conference was held with 40 parents from around the country in attendance. The conference set out the future role for a parents forum and will present the outcomes to all parents at a further conference in October 2010.

Parents Forum Invite - Looking Forward May 2010

Deaf Education Conference
4th March 2010

The conference was organised and sponsored by the Catholic Institute for Deaf People (CIDP), DeafHear.ie, the Centre for Deaf Studies Trinity College Dublin and the Irish Deaf Society (IDS). The conference featured the launch by John Bosco Conama of a new Policy document designed by the above three organisations which set out a new future for Deaf education. The conference also featured a keynote presentation by Mark Marschark from the USA. Mark is regarded as one of the leading academic researcher's on Deaf education and is the author of the 2009 research advice paper on best practice in Deaf education for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). There were also presentations from experts from the education and medical professions as well as current teachers and parents of Deaf children who reflected on their experiences of mainstream and Deaf schools. The presenters were both Deaf and hearing people and interpreters from Finland, Slovakia, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were present on the day.

The conference venue was the Croke Park Conference Centre in Dublin and the attendance was 320 delegates which showed the high level of interest in the area. The programme for the day, papers presented at the Conference and the speedtext transcripts of the presenters and the open forum contributions are available via the speedtext transcripts below:

Transcripts from the 4th March 2010
Presentation to Conference on the Future of Deaf Education in Ireland 4th March 2010 - Liam O'Dwyer
Contribution of Cochlear Implants to Deaf Education – Jennifer Robertson and Rosemary O’Halpin
The Visiting Teacher Service for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing – Pat MacSitric
Conference on Deaf Education – Teresa Griffin
A Partnership Approach to the delivery of Education of Deaf and hard of hearing children – A Policy document – Dr. John Bosco Conama
The Future Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in the Republic of Ireland – Sean Herlihy
The Village Project First Milestone Completed – Eddie Redmond IDS