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Deaf news in BSL from Remark: Netflix ruling | Lord Ashley memorial service | Deaf theatre group
Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! US court ruling may force Netflix to offer subtitles US video-streaming website Netflix could be legally forced to provide subtitles on its videos following a ruling in the US District Court. New media sign language […]
Luke Blackburn: Losing my DLA
June 29, 2012
So… Disability Living Allowance? Seems to be a piece of cake just getting it, no? I, myself, was once the proud recipient of DLA until I failed to reapply for it. I noticed that I hadn’t received DLA for quite a while and so I checked my bank account. To my despair, nothing had been […]
Deaf News: Five year old boy raises money for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
June 28, 2012
A five-year-old boy is raising funds for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People after starting his own Olympic-style ‘torch relay’ on eBay. Earlier this month, Logan McKerrow from Somerset made his own Olympic-style torch at school ahead of this summer’s London games and, with the help of his mum Kerry, decided to list the torch on […]
Sadaqat Ali: My concerns for the interpreting industry
June 28, 2012
I have been connected with the Deaf community all my life (I am deaf myself) as a user of interpreting services, as a mentor for young Deaf people and as the leader of several charities for the Deaf. I have also consulted in the running of a small interpreting agency. I am increasingly concerned about […]
Deaf News: National Theatre makes talks with the stars accessible
June 27, 2012
If you’ve ever wanted to find out how some of Britain’s biggest stars approach their roles, then you’re in luck, because the National Theatre (who support this site) are making their “In Conversation” series accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people using speech-to-text. Speech-to-text (provided by STAGETEXT) gives you access to every word the […]
Watch: Sean Forbes – Def Deaf Girls
June 26, 2012
American Deaf rapper Sean Forbes has made a real impact in the last few years. After getting signed to Eminem’s record label, he’s made a video with acting legend Marlee Matlin and also clocked up nearly half a million online views for his song ‘I’m Deaf.’ His latest song benefits from a video with a […]
Charlie Swinbourne: The meeting with the stars where I was left out, then included
June 26, 2012
A few months ago, I sat at a table in a posh house in south London, opposite a writer, a director and two well-known actors. This was the first day of their rehearsals, and because there was a short scene involving a deaf character, I had been asked to give them some background on deaf […]
Emily Howlett: The ‘R’ Word – Why we need to start talking about it
June 25, 2012
During our time together here on The Limping Chicken, I like to think that you, the Reader, have become accustomed to the habits of me, the Less-Interesting-and-More-Funny-Looking-Than-Others Writer. One of these habits, as nicely evidenced in the previous paragraph, is a tendency to present everything from the funny side. I take the humourous angle over […]
US Deaf News: Deaf man becomes firefighter!
June 22, 2012
In West Haven, Connecticut, a Deaf man has achieved his dream by passing the firefighter training test. Joe Cronin wanted to be a firefighter since he was a child. An ASL user, Cronin will lipread and use hand signals to do his job. Fox News reported Cronin as saying “They’ve accepted me for who I […]
Deaf news in BSL from Remark: Dog owner’s anger | EU guidelines | Film scheme
June 22, 2012
Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! Two out of five Deaf children ‘miss out’ on swimming lessons Deaf children are missing out on opportunities to learn to swim because of excessive concerns about health and safety and a lack of understanding […]
Tamsin Coates: The importance of subtitled cinema
June 22, 2012
I am a hearing mother of two deaf sons and a hearing daughter. My boys are profoundly deaf, and while they both wear cochlear implants, we have also actively encouraged their development of a deaf identity by having contact with deaf adults and older deaf children who are their role models. When they were younger, […]
Deaf Dad: The digital world vs the real world
June 21, 2012
I’ve been combining looking after my two beautiful daughters with freelance writing for nearly ten months now. Looking after my kids on my own has been a learning curve at times (not least when I couldn’t find a darn thing) but what it’s given me has been priceless. I wouldn’t say Toddler and Baby see […]
Michelle Hedley: My Twitter Top 10
June 21, 2012
Being deaf in a hearing world can be easy at times, and at others, it can be blooming hard. I continually find I have to work hard just to try and be equal, and yet I found in the past that I didn’t “belong” to the deaf world as I had clear speech and couldn’t […]
Deaf News: Deaf German blogger lipreads Euro 2012
June 20, 2012
The German newspaper Der Spiegel’s website has reported that a deaf German blogger has become a Twitter hit by lipreading what the players and manager are saying during matches in Euro 2012 then tweeting their words to her followers. The article says: ‘Probst has no trouble understanding Löw and anyone else both on and off […]
Deaf News: Deaf woman rejected for jury service says she feels like a “second class citizen”
June 20, 2012
When Emma Ferguson-Coleman received a jury service summons, she wrote to HM Courts and Tribunal Service informing them that as a profoundly deaf person, she needed an interpreter in order to follow both the court proceedings as well as deliberations in the jury room. Their response was to send her a letter informing her that […]
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