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Charlie Swinbourne: The story behind The Limping Chicken
May 13, 2013
Last week, Beth Abbott, who runs Bee Communications, who support this site, asked me to write about setting up The Limping Chicken for deaf awareness week. We’ve also shared this article below. If you ever wanted to know more, then read on! I set up The Limping Chicken, a deaf news and blogs website, in February […]
The Question: Do hearing people fake their sneezes? We need to know
April 30, 2013
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 has their own distinctive Sneeze Signature. Some people’s sneezes arrive as though they are deeply unexpected. An interruption. A shock. Picture […]
Charlie Swinbourne: How Deafinitely Theatre helped me become a scriptwriter (and how you can see my latest play at their 4Play showcase this week!)
April 29, 2013
One day in 2006, I struck up a conversation with Deafinitely Theatre’s Artistic Director Paula Garfield at Deaf Day in Covent Garden. That one chat, lasting only five minutes or so, was my first step into scriptwriting, because afterwards, with Paula’s encouragement, I went on to join Deafinitely Theatre’s scriptwriting group. I remember arriving for […]
Deaf Dad: Becoming a name hunter – to help my daughter settle in at her new nursery
April 11, 2013
Things are settling down now after our move in the new year. We’ve spent our weekends exploring the Yorkshire Dales, walking around the streets of our new town and learning that, like the song says, you really are taking your life into your own hands if you go up on Ilkley Moor without a hat […]
Charlie Swinbourne: The day Richard Griffiths told us about being brought up by Deaf parents
March 30, 2013
It was announced yesterday that the actor Richard Griffiths has died at the age of 65 following heart surgery. My earliest memory of seeing Griffiths in action was as a child when I used to watch his series Pie in the Sky, where, if recollection serves me right, he played a chef who was also […]
Deaf Dad: Why fathers should read to their children
March 14, 2013
I read to my children every night, but many fathers don’t. Here’s my article for parenting website Yano about why fathers should read to their kids. Every family has a bedtime routine, and we are no different. At around 6.15pm every night, it begins. Our daughters have their bath, brush their teeth, get their pyjamas […]
Charlie Swinbourne: Is it right to criticise Marvel for creating superhero with hearing aids?
March 8, 2013
Fair comment, or an example of how it’s impossible to please everyone when it comes to deafness? In May last year, we reported on how cartoonists at Marvel had responded to a heart-felt letter from the mother of a deaf boy who wouldn’t wear his hearing aids. First, they sent him a West Coast Avengers […]
Charlie Swinbourne: Deaf footballer Daniel Ailey says abuse he experiences is ‘the same as racism’
February 26, 2013
Extract: Daniel Ailey didn’t give up playing football when a badly broken leg left him on the sidelines for a year. He didn’t quit when a trial with Doncaster Rovers as a teenager ended in rejection. But Ailey, who is deaf and plays as a semi-professional for Potters Bar Town, in Hertfordshire, nearly walked away from […]
Deaf Dad: The importance of knowing where your child’s favourite cuddly toy is
February 22, 2013
When I was a child, another Deaf family came to visit us one day. They had two daughters, and the youngest never let her favourite cuddly toy – a tiny pony – out of her reach. At the end of a long day of play, the family decided it was time to go home. Cue […]
Charlie Swinbourne: 10 great Limping Chicken articles you may not have read!
February 18, 2013
In the last year, we’ve published all kinds of articles, from videos online that you really should watch, to Subtitle Fail screengrabs and Deaf News stories. Our main stock in trade has been opinion articles, by many of you. Yet because we publish articles each weekday, posts quickly roll down our homepage. If you’re busy […]
Charlie Swinbourne: We should go to Mover’s Anonymous. Because we’ve, er, moved again. For the third time in eight months
January 11, 2013
People are starting to get worried about me and my wife. The reason? We can’t stop moving. In May last year, we moved across Twickenham. That felt like a pretty big deal, because we’d lived in our rented house for three years. Yet that was a mere warm-up for the big move, from London to […]
Charlie Swinbourne: From being called ‘Poo Daddy’ to a traumatic plane journey – My 10 most embarrassing dad moments
January 4, 2013
‘Becoming a dad has given me some of the most beautiful moments imaginable,’ says Charlie Swinbourne. ‘But there have been some very, very embarrassing moments too.’ Here he tells us his top 10, gathered over the past four years since his first daughter Martha, arrived, followed by Edie, who is now two.There are exquisite moments […]
Hits of 2012: 10 things you should never say to a deaf person
December 31, 2012
Reaching the end of our greatest hits of 2012, here’s our most viewed article with nearly 17,000 hits. Have a happy party tonight, all, and be safe. See you in 2013! Hearing people. Want to make friends with a deaf person? Then wise up and don’t say any of these sentences. Us Deafies will never […]
Hits of 2012: Things that only happen to deaf people
December 30, 2012
Continuing our journey through our greatest hits since we were set up in February this year, here’s our second most viewed article, with nearly 10,000 views… Whether you’re a signer, a lipreader, a hearing aid wearer or a cochlear implant user, or maybe a bit of each of those (and some other things too), there […]
Charlie Swinbourne: Ten great comebacks for deaf people to use
December 11, 2012
We’ve all had them. Those annoying questions that well-meaning people seem to ask you again and again. And again. Although their query might be perfectly innocent, they’re usually followed by an awkward pause as you work out how to respond, and explain. But now, thanks to Limping Chicken, you can go out armed. Not with […]
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