Changing attitudes towards deaf people: Strictly Come Dancing winner / News / By Dave Simon Staffordshire deafness charity praises Rose Strictly win dDeaflinks Staffordshire said the success had taken people by surprise because of a lack of understanding about deafness. “As a society we’ve grown up not seeing the deaf community, so we don’t fully understand it, we’ve not been educated and that’s why we’re surprised…” Read more here.