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Browsing All Posts published on »October, 2012«
Meet: Becky Bailey, director of ‘Little World’
Becky Bailey recently made her directing debut with the animated short film, Little World. It’s a stunningly beautiful film that uses all the visual possibilities that animation offers to make a deaf girl’s world at a boarding school come to life. Although it’s only 7 minutes long, Little World took months to make, and was […]
Deaf News: Nick Sturley’s novel ‘Innocents of Oppression’ launched!
October 30, 2012
After 2 years and 200,000 words, last week saw the official launch of Nick Sturley’s new novel, Innocents of Oppression at Remark London. Over 80 guests attended the successful launch party, including many leading figures from the Deaf world, including the British Deaf Association’s CEO David Buxton, Remark’s Mark Nelson, Deaf Parenting UK’s Sabina Iqbal, […]
Rebecca-Anne Withey: A response to Brian Duffy’s film ‘Strangers’
October 30, 2012
I’ve just got round to watching Brian Duffy’s short film ‘Strangers’. Using dialogues led by a young deaf guy and his parents, it showed its audience just how possible it is for a deaf person to feel like an outsider towards their own hearing family. Isolated and frustrated, mainly because his parents were poor communicators, […]
Watch: Trailer for documentary ‘Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God’
October 29, 2012
A new HBO documentary from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, which was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the story of four deaf men who were abused by a priest at their deaf school in America. The film, called Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, looks at the abuse, which occured […]
Deaf news in BSL from Remark: Hearing aid worn on teeth | Mexico’s Deaf police officers | Gallaudet diversity row
October 29, 2012
Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! Hearing aid worn on your teeth to help those who are deaf in one ear A new system means that deaf people could soon be wearing hearing aids on their teeth. Punk Chef is on the […]
Thumbs Up: The English Deaf Golf Association
October 29, 2012
The English Deaf Golf Association (EDGA) was formed in 1983. Ben Stephens made his first foray into deaf golf in 2011 and was voted in as their Secretary earlier this year. He told us all about the organisation and their efforts to get more deaf people to pick up a set of clubs and play […]
Donna Williams: Expressing myself at Portsmouth Bookfest
October 26, 2012
I’m nervous. I’m excited. Regular readers of my blog may know that I had an amazing time at the Signing Hands Across the Water poetry festival in Philadelphia and was exposed to different styles of Sign Language poetry, including use of interpreters to give a voiceover. The ASL poets both had interpreters, whilst none of […]
Rob Wilks: The hearing world is a cruel one. Fact.
October 26, 2012
The hearing world is a cruel one. Fact. As a solicitor specialising in disability discrimination law, not a day goes by where I don’t hear first hand experiences from Deaf individuals about the barriers they’ve faced, the treatment they’ve suffered and the hurt they feel through all walks of life. It’s my job to explain […]
William Mager: If Apple made cochlear implants…
October 25, 2012
Watch the video above. Its an old film reel from 1928 of the premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Circus. When an eagle eyed historian watched the film’s DVD extras, he spotted a woman walking along, talking into a handheld object near her mouth. There was only one possible explanation – she was a time […]
Angie Aspinall: Things that doctors have said to me since I started losing my hearing
October 25, 2012
Angie Aspinall started going deaf in one ear at the age of 30, then suffered total sudden onset hearing loss in her ‘good’ ear in 2011. Here she has listed some of the things doctors have said to her since she started losing her hearing… The ENT doctor who diagnosed me with the progressive condition […]
Deaf News: NHS audiology services “being cut”
October 24, 2012
According to research by Action on Hearing Loss, around 40% of NHS audiology services are facing cuts in funding. There are also indications that waiting times are getting longer and there is less follow-up care. Most worryingly of all, in some cases, patients are only being given one hearing aid. The BBC reports: Using the […]
Lianne Herbert: The frustration of attending a play without any access
October 24, 2012
Last week, my drama teacher organised a theatre trip for my drama group – who are all hearing – to attend. We went to see the last performance of a London-based production, because we were going to meet the cast the following day in our drama class to discuss the play. At first, when the […]
Anna Hughes: My role in the Paralympics opening ceremony
October 24, 2012
My journey to the 2012 London Paralympics opening and closing ceremonies took a year. From auditioning, to performing in the ceremonies, it proved a remarkable journey. When the offer came, my role was to be an Athletes Marshall in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. At the first rehearsal, I was one of approximately 500 Athletes […]
Tim Blackwell: DLA is set to disappear, and deaf people need to prepare for it
October 23, 2012
Many Deaf people are currently receiving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) as of legal right and may, like me, have got used to it. Unfortunately, the coalition government has decided to go back on this arrangement by abolishing DLA and replacing it with a new benefit, the Personal Independence Payment (or PIP for short.) The government […]
Lizzie Ward: What it means to have Musical Ear Syndrome
October 23, 2012
One thing that has always intrigued me about my experience of being deaf is the question of my ‘musical tinnitus’. Tinnitus can be anything from a persistent ringing sound, to voices, singing or sirens inside your head/ears. I have never really been told what exactly tinnitus is, to be honest. On the British Tinnitus Association website, it […]
Must See: Integrated sign language performance of I, Malvolio at London’s Unicorn Theatre
October 22, 2012
The Limping Chicken has four pairs of tickets (that’s eight altogether!) to give away for the performance below, on a first-come, first-served basis. Email thelimpingchicken@gmail.com and they could be yours! Read on… This Friday, the Unicorn Theatre presents their first one man show featuring fully integrated sign language for young Deaf audiences with Tim Crouch’s […]
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