Sylvia Kenneth

Deputy Ward Manager – National Deaf Services

Wednesday 25th June 2014

• Happy family – Mother, Father, 5 Brothers

• Normal childhood – grew up in Stoke Newington

• Deaf unit/oralism

• Philip

• What causes Schizophrenia?

• Evidence of Schizophrenia

• Why in our family

• How I noticed Philip’s behaviour

• Joined NHS – 1997 as a HCA

• University of Salford – 2002-2005

• Now Deputy Ward Manager at Bluebell Ward

Unravelling the Signs - Living with a Deaf

Schizophrenic brother