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Jude Powell tells us about his experience training as an actor and landing a TV role on The Chelsea Detective (BSL) ...
Last week I had the privilege of presenting at the BDA BSL Conference 2025. The theme was ‘Us. Here. Always’ and the conference marked 135 years of the BDA campaigning for and safeguarding the rights ...
Several deaf organisations have released information signposting deaf people to accessible specialist support services following videos and stories released on social media over the last few days ...
I didn’t get good grades at school. Partly because I didn’t work hard and also because the lessons weren’t accessible for me. I’ve worn hearing aids since the age of 7 and grew up in a hearing, non ...
A new report published today by the campaign ‘deaf together’ shows only 15% of deaf people have had a positive experience with government scheme ‘Access to Work’ and it’s taking too long for claims… ...
Author Jan Dunning on her latest book, ‘The Last Thing You’ll Hear’ and her experience of deafness (BSL) ...
Steph Bailey Scott: Why we created near future drama Martha, putting deaf stories centre stage ...
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 ...
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) ...
The British Deaf Association has announced the winner of its third annual British Sign Language (BSL) Poet Laureate competition. The winner is Ishtiaq Hussain, who becomes the 2025 BSL Poet Laureate, ...
A short documentary made by the BBC in association with the Open University has shed more light on what it’s like to be deaf in prison, a subject that has also recently been highlighted in the BBC’s ...
Hearing people, eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. Statistics show that five in six people are hearing. That’s a whopping 50 million people in the UK, and nearly 6 billion ...