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Deborah Cochrane: Why are people so afraid of sign language?

March 23, 2016

It’s the ‘Dawn of a New-ish Era’, a time when people are moving away from old fashioned ideals and embracing […]

Deaf News: Warning about ‘con artists’ who pretend to be deaf

March 23, 2016

The Gloucestershire Echo has reported on local con artists who are calling at people’s homes, pretending to be deaf. This isn’t […]

Lianne Herbert: Being Deaf at the hairdressers

March 22, 2016

Being at the hairdressers is a prime time for people to gossip. But as a deaf person, when I take […]

Deaf News: National Deaf Children’s Society helps education professionals to be deaf friendly teachers

March 22, 2016

The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) has launched new flagship resources to help education professionals develop deaf friendly teaching techniques […]

Read: How student Olivia Ginn counters hearing people’s views on Deaf people having children

March 22, 2016

A student at Goshen College in Indiana, USA, has written an insightful article for her college campus newspaper about hearing […]

Poem: Read Tracy Williamson’s moving poem ‘Deafness’ about living with neurological deafness

March 21, 2016

Deafness Noise jangling A muddle of sound Voices passing to and fro I smile, trying to look as if I […]

The Question: Do deaf people sleep better at night than hearing people?

March 20, 2016

At weekends, we publish posts from our archive which you might have missed first time round: Do deaf people sleep more […]

Ai-Media: 5 Things That All Deaf Students Need to Know About University in the UK

March 19, 2016

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This article has been posted courtesy of our supporter, Ai-Media. So you’ve finished school (congrats!), and now it’s time for […]

Anonymous: I wasn’t given an interpreter when my mum died, and then I was excluded from funeral arrangements

March 18, 2016

I always overcome communication barriers by using BSL interpreters and communication assistants (for translating between languages at a fluent level). […]

Leigh Taylor: Why I gave my deaf daughter a lesson in how to swear

March 17, 2016

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Last week I taught my darling daughter something new. That in itself is not unusual; she’s 15, and I like […]