Safe: personal safety skills for deaf children

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A group work programme on DVD-Rom designed to help give deaf children the knowledge, awareness and language they need to stay safe and make better informed life choices.

Download the Safe: personal safety skills for deaf children flyer and order form (PDF, 68KB)

Promoting the safety and wellbeing of deaf children

Safe helps you to strengthen the self-confidence and self-esteem of deaf children, enabling them to seek help and advice when they need it.

Safe's DVD-Rom and practice guide cover the important issues deaf children need to know about.

Each of the topics on the DVD-rom are presented by young deaf presenters, as shown in this short clip:

There are role plays (short films), storyboards, animations, a glossary of British Sign Language (BSL) terms and other learning resources to help you.

Topics include:

feelings
relationships
differences
bullying
growing up (including sex education)
safety indoors, outdoors and on the road
internet and mobile phone safety.

DVD-Rom minimum system requirements:

PC with mouse (the DVD-Rom is not compatible with Apple Mac computers)
Windows ME/XP (recommended) / Vista
512MB RAM (1GB recommended)
2GB hard drive space
16x (read speed) DVD-Rom drive (24x recommended)
Video and audio drivers with full DirectX support
16-bit colour (32-bit true colour recommended)
800 x 600 screen resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
QuickTime version 7 (included on disc)
Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7 or later (version 9 included on disc)
Some features require Microsoft Word 2002 (or later), internet connection or printer.

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