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Meet: Amanda Everitt, NDCS Participation Officer

May 31, 2012

Could you describe your upbringing in New Zealand? My childhood was very idyllic. Imagine great big blue skies, the foam of the surf lapping at your feet, catching a wave on a bodyboard and crashing down into sandcastles, carefree summer days spent licking hokey pokey icecream and playing cricket along the beach… Making you jealous? […]

Ni Gallant: Applying for Disabled Students Allowance

May 31, 2012

So I realised yesterday that about a month ago now I actually volunteered to write another article for the Limping Chicken. But what with exams, audiology appointments and general university organisation stress I totally forgot… I decided all that time ago that I wanted to write a post to really cheer up all those parents […]

Ted Evans: The road ahead, after winning the Ben Steiner bursary

May 30, 2012

So here I am, delighted to have won the Ben Steiner Bursary at Deaffest 2012. I’ve just received a cheque for 5K but I won’t be walking away with any money. Every single penny will go into my next short film, a film which is very much in development, but one I’m very excited about. […]

Sasha Thorpe: Finding the deaf world at 23

May 30, 2012

Since learning British Sign Language, I have felt more included in the deaf world, but this hasn’t always been the case. To me, growing up, I felt as if I was a deaf girl in a hearing world… alone. I was the only deaf person in my family and in my school life. At times […]

Read: ‘I may be deaf, but you can still talk to me’ article in The Independent

May 29, 2012

An article in today’s Independent features the story of a deaf teenager called Ellen Arthurs, who talks about her isolation and how she felt excluded when growing up. In the article, Ellen says: “I think teenagers find it difficult to accept any difference…. It’s worst when I’m in a restaurant with people around the table. They […]

Thumbs up: ‘U sign’ – the hard-wearing BSL flipbook

May 29, 2012

You know how it is when you’re a chicken farmer just starting out in learning BSL, spending a long day tending the coop when all you really want to do is practice some signs for your BSL course. It’s messy. There’s feathers and, er, chicken waste all over the place. Then you reach for your […]

Deaf News: Craig Crowley says inclusion in the Paralympics vital for future of Deaf sport

May 29, 2012

In an interview by Tom Degun for Inside World Parasport, Craig Crowley, President of the ICSD (International Committee of Sports for the Deaf) has admitted that inclusion in the Paralympic Games is vital for the future of Deaf sport. Up until now the Deaflympics, which were first held in Paris in 1924, have never been […]

The Secret Deafie: The waitress who walked away before getting an answer

May 28, 2012

The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today’s Deafie tells us about two examples of the treatment she received from waitresses in a restaurant. I have two stories to tell you. Firstly, I was staying in a hotel with several people, mostly hearing, though some could sign, and we […]

Live blog: Deaffest 2012 – Saturday!

May 26, 2012

Today is the second day of the UK’s deaf film and TV festival Deaffest 2012! Click here to read last night’s live blog, including reaction to ‘The Third Brigade’, ‘Still Here’ and ‘Sex or Chocolate.’ Read on below for today’s film-by-film blog by editor Charlie Swinbourne. For today’s programme, just click here, and don’t forget […]

Live blog: Deaffest 2012 – Friday night!

May 25, 2012

Tonight marks the launch of the UK’s deaf film and TV festival Deaffest 2012, where The Limping Chicken’s editor Charlie Swinbourne will be writing a live film-by-film blog, published below! Don’t forget to follow his tweets via Limping_Chicken and also the Twitter hashtag #Deaffest2012! 10.42pm: Overall, a great first night. Highlights for me were: The […]

Deaf news in BSL from Remark: Irish TV subtitling | Man City offer BSL tour | Lotto cash boost

May 25, 2012

Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! New Irish TV subtitling rules ‘will worsen’ the access to TV for Deaf viewers The Irish television regulatory body has published new guidelines to encourage Irish TV broadcasters to increase the number of subtitled programmes […]

Best of Deaffest: Best of the rest

May 25, 2012

During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK’s Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we’ve been showing you some of the festival’s greatest hits from previous years, which can be seen online. We’ve had The End, Chasing Cotton Clouds, Coming Out and Stiletto. Today, we give you […]

Deaf News: Marvel Comics creates superhero for deaf boy

May 24, 2012

A heart-warming story covered on Concord Monitor has revealed how Marvel Comics responded to the mother of a deaf boy when she wrote to them telling them that her son wouldn’t wear his hearing aids. Christina D’Allesandro thought her message would end up in the spam folder, but was amazed to get a series of […]

Best of Deaffest: Stiletto (directed by William Mager)

May 24, 2012

During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK’s Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we’re showing you some of the festival’s greatest hits from previous years, which can be seen online. Don’t forget that during the festival, which kicks off on Friday night, The Limping Chicken will […]

Theatre Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost, by Deafinitely Theatre

May 23, 2012

’37 Plays. 37 Languages.’ This is the tag line for the Globe Theatre’s Globe to Globe season, hosting theatre companies from every corner of the world. The season may be international in outlook, yet the language used to perform this version of Love’s Labour’s Lost is at once home-grown, yet very different from the language […]