British Sign Language magazine series. We catch up with a family who were last on See Hear ten years ago, searching for a deaf child to adopt as their own.
National Adoption Week has just finished, so what better time to look back at two previous stories about adoption, first featured on See Hear many years ago?
First of all, we're continuing the story of Ausha Bryans. When See Hear first met him in 1988, he was a young deaf boy who had been living in care for two and a half years. His mother had found it hard to cope with him and put him into care when he was six. He was eventually adopted by the Bryans family, a large hearing family with six children of their own and two adoptive children. We tracked Ausha down to see how life has been for him over the last 16 years.
In our second update, we're meeting up with a deaf couple called Lorraine and Alan who after trying for 15 years to have a child, decided to adopt. When we first met them in 1997, they had been on the adoption register for over 18 months and were starting to wonder if a match would ever be found for them. We went back to find them a decade later, to see if they had eventually succeeded in their quest to adopt.
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