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Money Matters: The challenges Deaf people face when applying for DLA and PiP

May 22, 2017

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Deaf Action’s Money Matters service in Scotland provides a direct face-to-face financial advice and casework service for deaf people and their families in […]

Go See: General Election hustings hosted by the BDA

May 22, 2017

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The British Deaf Association (BDA) has organised a series of General Election hustings which Deaf people can attend and ask […]

Deaf News: Website launched with stories for lipreading

May 21, 2017

A group of Hampshire lipreading tutors, lipreaders and techno-wizards has joined forces with local writers to develop a new website called […]

Jodene Antoniou: Top 6 things I wish they’d told us about childhood deafness

May 19, 2017

Our son was diagnosed with hearing loss at his newborn hearing screening, but after over a year of borderline hearing […]

Deirdre Maguire: Deaf awareness is for Deaf people too!

May 19, 2017

I started this week with a joke on my Facebook post – A friend pointed out maybe I should share […]

Watch: Liberal Democrats manifesto in BSL

May 19, 2017

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You can now see the Lib Dems manifesto for the General Election in BSL, with an introduction signed by former […]

NDCS/Brian Gale: Election 2017: Education funding and deaf children

May 19, 2017

One of the big election hot potatoes is around education funding, with many parents concerned about possible cuts to the […]

Watch: Episode 1 of brand-new BSL sketch comedy programme Deaf Funny!

May 18, 2017

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Earlier tonight, the first episode of Deaf Funny was broadcast on television for the first time, and you can now […]

Rebecca-Anne Withey: My review of Deaffest 2017!

May 17, 2017

I’ve been attending the festival Deaffest at Wolverhampton for many years now. This year was its 12th festival and boy has it […]

Deaf News: Childline launches deaf counselling service (BSL)

May 17, 2017

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Deaf children and teenagers around the UK can now use sign language to be counselled by Childline in two brand […]