Dizzy Deliveries – Series Synopsis
13 eps x 13 minutes – RTÉjr and RTÉ2
Audience – Pre-school & Lámh Users of all ages
Dizzy Deliveries is the first television series in Ireland to teach children LÁMH SIGNS. It is intended for all pre-schoolers and targets children with special intellectual needs.
Set in the Dizzy Deliveries Depot and a new delivery location in each episode, Dizzy Deliveries features Joe – the delivery man with magical powers, Ozzy – the flying robot who works with Joe and helps him make his deliveries and Aisling – the owner of the Dizzy Deliveries and Joe & Ozzy’s boss. Aisling also teaches the audience Lámh Signs in every episode. Each episode features 3 key Lámh signs that are relevant to the theme of the episode. They are taught by Aisling in a fun and interactive way that makes it easy to join in and learn for Lámh users and non-Lámh users.
Of the series, Suzanne Kelly, Head of Children’s and Young People’s content at RTÉ said: “We are beyond proud to be involved in commissioning and broadcasting Dizzy Deliveries, RTÉ’s first ever Lámh TV series. Diversity and inclusion are at the very core of this project which is so important to RTÉjr. Dizzy Deliveries will both entertain and enable all children to communicate and engage with each other. We hope it will positively promote and normalise the use of Lámh while incorporating the key elements to all good young children’s television – colour, characters, fun and laughter.”
The highlight of every episode is our special star guest, this is a child who uses Lámh signs in their everyday life. They help Joe & Ozzy make their deliveries and come to the rescue when Joe has brought the wrong parcel! A wide range of children from the Lámh community were cast in Dizzy Deliveries to make sure the shows are representative of the diversity amongst Lámh users. The series features children from the Down Syndrome community, Autistic community, Wheelchair users and children with rare syndromes who use Lámh to learn to communicate.
Each episode of Dizzy Deliveries brings us on another wonderful adventure where Joe & Ozzy are sent by Aisling to a new location to make deliveries. Highlights include –
- Joe & Ozzy go to the Zoo where they meet the elephants, sea lions and lions.
- A day at the bakery where Joe & Ozzy meet celebrity cook Donal Skehan and bake scones.
- A trip to the farm to meet the pigs, sheep and cows.
- Making deliveries to a surprise Birthday Party & baking a birthday cake!
- Bringing special deliveries to the Fire Station and a trip in the Fire Truck.
- A trip on an open top bus when they visit the Bus Depot.
Locations featured on Dizzy Deliveries series 1 are – a school, farm, zoo, bakery, sports centre, bus depot, fire station, birthday party, theatre, park, doctor’s office, the seaside and a supermarket.
The series is directed by renowned Bafta Award winning writer & director Nia Ceidiog who has written Fireman Sam and produced/directed the hugely successful Something Special series with Mr Tumbles for Cbeebies.
This fun and lively series will have the deeply positive effect of promoting and normalising Lámh use while retaining the key elements to all good pre-school television – colour, characters, laughter and song.
What is Lámh?
Lámh is the manual sign system used by children and adults with intellectual disability and communicaiton needs in Ireland, it was originally developed in the early 1980s in Ireland in order to have a unified, standardised, Irish-based approach to signing for those with intellectual disabilities and communication needs.
Lámh is used in communication by people with Down Syndrome, Autism and other intellectual and physical disabilities. For some, Lámh is their main method of communicating, while others use Lámh along with speech and other ways of communicating. Lámh is used in pre-schools, schools, services, therapy centres, day services, houses, residential settings, ASD units, work settings etc. around Ireland. All in all, Lámh is used in hundreds of organisations around Ireland, as well as in thousands of homes.