When an old school friend, Martine Monksfield, shared a video online about being unexpectedly visited by Jehovah’s Witnesses, she received a flurry of inbox messages from deaf people who had ...

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A major new effort is underway at the University of East Anglia to help deaf children born to hearing parents gain stronger language skills from the very start. Researchers are exploring how ...

Sophie Kang, Sales and Marketing Manager at Sign Solutions, says AI has the potential to help BSL signers, but only if it’s developed with their input In April, the British Deaf Association (BDA) ...

As someone who adores design related television shows, I recently enjoyed LumoTV’s brand new show, DeSign where a team of builders, led by deaf architect Chris Laing, transformed the home of a ...

July in Leeds, click here. I do love a good Deaf club night. Before I’ve even taken off my coat – in fact, often before ...

I am horrified that yet again our government is taking another brutal bashing at Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people. I remember in 2012 the Graeae gang and many of our cohort were feeling ...

I went to a great conference today. It was riveting and I was hooked on pretty much every word. And then I got home and collapsed on the sofa. I’m not just tired, I’m shattered. I’ve had to turn my ...

The UK Government is being taken to court tomorrow, in a landmark legal case with the potential to strengthen the rights of Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users. The judicial review hearing over ...

I’m partially deaf, but that hasn’t stopped me from detecting a distinctive difference in the way different people sneeze. Every sneeze has its own sound, and its own look. You could say every sneezer ...

The UK Government breached the Equality Act 2010 when it failed to provide a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter for its scientific briefings on the coronavirus, a judge has ruled today. The ...

A damning new report released today by leading charities RNID and SignHealth has revealed serious and widespread healthcare failings affecting over 6 million adults in England who are deaf or have ...