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Deaf news in BSL from Remark: Deaf hostage freed | Money raised for BDA | Deaf health protests
Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! Deaf health access protest held outside Dundee hospital Members of the Deaf community in the Scottish city of Dundee have held a protest outside Kings Cross Hospital last week claiming the local health authority has […]
Meet: Phillippa Merricks, globe-trotting superstar
March 30, 2012
I’m very excited to have the chance to interview a real globe-trotting superstar of the Deaf world, Miss Philippa Merricks! Obviously, we must start with the Random Question from our last victim: Which came first: the limping chicken or the cracked egg? That’s a tough one! Hmm, I grew up on a farm so I […]
Ni Gallant: My journey
March 30, 2012
I’ve always been the kid that nobody ever notices, the one who spent most of her high school life hiding behind her hair, who never spoke up in class, and hung around with the “uncool” group. When the year book came out I was the girl people pointed at and said: “Was she even in […]
Theatre review: Deafinitely Theatre’s ‘Gold Dust’
March 29, 2012
Read my review of Deafinitely Theatre’s play Gold Dust for Disability Arts Online here. Or read on below. Family. It’s a big theme in deaf life. That sounds like a terrible introduction to a review doesn’t it? I mean, family’s a big theme for everyone. But there’s something unique about deafness in the impact it […]
Deaf Dad: Discovering vinyl music with Toddler
March 29, 2012
I grew up in a deaf family, and aside from a children’s tape recorder we would sometimes record our voices on, we didn’t have anything that could play music in the house. So I only discovered music at the age of 11, when a friend gave me his second-hand record player. Our next door neighbours […]
Reema Patel: Growing up deaf in a hearing world
March 28, 2012
My deafness is relatively invisible, although significant (moderate to severe hearing nerve loss). I have clear speech, I can lip-read well (except for in dark or in particularly noisy places), and I come across as a fairly gregarious person – which means that I am ‘coming out’ as deaf all of the time; and watching […]
Overseen: Two bankers talking on the tube
March 28, 2012
‘Overseen’ is our strand where Deafies tell us about conversations they have ‘overseen’ (see what we did there?) in public, through lipreading and picking up on body language. Our second contributor tells us about a conversation she saw on the tube… It was a crowded District Line tube train, and I was travelling from east […]
Deaf news: Deaf diplomat quits glittering career over refusal to pay for lipspeaker
March 27, 2012
Jane Cordell, the deaf diplomat who lost an employment tribunal and then an appeal against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s decision to withdraw a prestigious posting to Kazakhstan, has given up her career as a result. The FCO ruled that the cost of providing lipspeaking support (where speech is translated via clear lip patterns so […]
Deaf news: It’s Graeae vs Deafinitely Theatre in London!
March 27, 2012
I like Deafinitely Theatre, and I like Graeae Theatre company. But which do I like best? FIIIIGGGHHHHT! Ok, so that was the most ridiculous Harry Hill inspired start to an article The Limping Chicken has seen yet, and our tribute to NME’s Blur v Oasis front page is nearly as guilty as that magazine of […]
Meet: Tessa Padden and Linda Day, creators of online BSL resource Signworld
March 27, 2012
A brand-new website called Signworld has just been launched, and is set to revolutionise the way people can learn and teach British Sign Language (BSL). The site was created by Linda Day and Tessa Padden, two of Britain’s most experienced university-level teachers, so we thought it was time we found out what the site is […]
Debate: Music video by Spring Offensive featuring sign language – arty, offensive or just plain daft?
March 26, 2012
Spring Offensive, a self-styled wimpy miserablist band from Oxfordshire, recently released their latest single, ‘Worry Fill My Heart’, with an accompanying music video. The band perform synchronised signing in the video, and are later joined by a large cast of extras who sign to illustrate the chorus. To take a look at their efforts, watch […]
Hero deaf pets: Deaf cat survives 19 storey fall, & deaf dog learns sign language!
March 26, 2012
Pets. You’ve got to love them – with their fluffy ears, wagging tails and soft fur. It’s compulsory. HERO DEAF PETS. Out of sheer loyalty to our deaf, but hard of human kin, us deafies are compelled to love them even more. Even better, news outlets across the world just LOVE writing about stone-animal HERO […]
The Secret Deafie: My collision with a wheelchair user
March 26, 2012
The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today’s Deafie tells us about an incident in the street… One day, I went shopping to my local Tesco. I was walking back to my flat along the high street, laden down with three or four heavy bags when I paused at […]
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