As noise pollution has a negative impact on hearing health, CHS strongly supports initiatives pertaining to hearing conservation and noise control. CHS’s position is in accordance with the component of our mission statement that promotes the advancement of hearing health.
Visual fire alarms and visual emergency notification systems are essential to the safety of culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing Canadians. Accessible emergency notification is an issue quite simply of life and death.
To ensure the development of language and communication competencies, it is essential that all infants and young children are provided with uninhibited and unimpeded access to language. In Canada, such language acquisition and development opportunities are readily available to typically hearing infants and children through normal interaction with their environments and the people in their environments.Also available in .pdf
Culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing Canadians have the right to fair and equitable treatment, to participate equally in the workplace, and to communicate fully and freely with businesses, non-profit organizations and government. It is the position of CHS that both the public, private, voluntary and not for profit sectors be responsible for ensuring discrimination-free environments.
Culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened and hard of hearing Canadians have the right to be able to communicate fully with political candidates and elected representatives or as political candidates and elected representatives.
Organizations and institutions should be responsible for providing any and all accommodations that they and culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened, or hard of hearing people need in order to have full and equal access to each other.