British Sign Language interpreter, I assumed the hardest part would be the languages and all their intricacies. Turns out, it’s not the languages ...

I stumbled upon a blog I wrote back in 2017 when my son had just finished his first year of nursery school. He was four years old at the time and I was bracing myself for the next however many ...

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Departure Lounge Festival returns to Derby Theatre this year with a growing focus on deaf access, BSL interpretation and captioning. I spoke to Executive Producer Jen Sullivan about how the festival ...

A Deaf campaigner is calling for urgent changes to emergency service communication support after her own experience revealed what she describes as a critical gap in accessibility for British Sign ...

Following Rebecca’s great article on Lipreading, as a lifelong lipreader I can fully relate to things like beards, facemasks, chewing gum, ciggies, tongue studs and dental braces getting in ...

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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 ...

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 ...