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Charlie Swinbourne, Editor
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Merfyn Williams
June 6, 2019
Charlie
Thank you for keeping up this good important work you do.
It keeps us engaged and aware of other deaf people stories now that we live in a society led by austerity that are cutting us off.
Mainstream voluntary sectors are not committed to equality with the provision of communication support and are not held to account with support from Councillor and MP’s and this is pretty poor. I do experience political inequalities, the paying of lip service by public sectors in their consultations.
The Equality Commission I feel fails us in the representation the impact with the UN report where it has has failed to get media attention for a debate.
I do feel isolated and deprived in the community. Fighting for access is a regular theme for me now. This is getting worse.
I do feel there is a need for better awareness of what campaigning is happening across the UK led by deaf people – often led by hearing able peers.
I feel many deaf organisation are not engaging with the grass root properly any more.
This Limping Chicken do keeps me informed.
Editor
June 6, 2019
Ah thanks Merfyn! Appreciated and thanks for your other comments.
pennybsl
June 6, 2019
Merfyn Williams’ comments echo my own views.
It’s true that the DAILY battle – or intolerance of needless obstacles to good access, communication, social participation – is wearying and exhausting.
Would love a new cartoon of the LC as a veteran of battles (reflective of today’s 75th Anniversary of D-Day) with a bionic prosthetic leg and holding a campaigning banner !!!
I frequently forward the link of several LC articles & BSL vlogs to professionals and friends, they appreciate being up-to-date with pertinent issues.
We need more articles about Deaf kids, our future generations of Deafies, and Deaf perspectives about the impact of their families (role models for many) and teachers (ditto for trainees in Deaf Education). Also stuff about BSL teaching, training, lipspeaking etc., how things are getting in in this increasingly fragmented country.
Thanks Charlie – amazing how you fit in this role amidst your other roles in TV & Film – and as a family man – DEAF HUGS xxx
Editor
June 6, 2019
You’re making me emotional! Great comment and thanks Penny x
Daphne Brett
June 7, 2019
I hope you’ll forgive a reply from a hearing person who has become increasingly aware of the discrimination, intolerance, lack of equal provision especially in the NHS, and in some cases downright bad treatment experienced by Deaf people. I think the separation of hearing and Deaf communities, diminishes both, so I am encouraging hearing people to learn BSL. This needs to help the hearing improve their ability to communicate. (This includes me,)However, as in all teaching, the teachers need to be good at their job, or they inoculate people with a little BSL which then puts them off learning more.
I only recently discovered your blogs Charlie, I think Limping Chicken is great, and I especially find Deafie Blogger interesting, and her Mothering Sunday article made me emotional, and gave insight into the battles a family has to be involved in for their precious child. You give people a voice to share their thoughts and concerns and I hope you continue with this resource. Do tell me though, why Limping Chicken?
With every encouragement, Dee
Ray Phillips, MD, Kent Lakes, New York
June 15, 2019
As an every-day reader of The Limping Chicken for many years, I have found it priceless. Learning the intimate experiences of writers coping with hearing issues has been an enormous help in my developing a realistic historical novel, nearing completion. It is a story of a born-deaf child, Mary Walsingham, beginning in 1623 in a manor house in Littleton, England and winding up in the hardscrabble colony of Hartford, Connecticut. The frustrations, ingenuity and at times triumphs of your writers have provided a valuable resource to complement the misunderstanding of being deaf in the 17th century, as learned from an in-depth history study. In this perspective, your daily column is a treasure.
Editor
June 15, 2019
That’s lovely, thank you Ray and good luck with your book! Charlie