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December 22, 2015

Comments Off on Read: Why do you never see a Lego mini-figure with a disability? By Rebecca Atkinson for the Guardian

Our regular writer, Rebecca Atkinson, has written an article for the Guardian about representation of deafness and disability in Lego […]

December 22, 2015

Comments Off on Lesley Weatherson: What Lipspeakers can offer deaf people

With a new cohort of Lipspeakers about to take their first assignments for deaf people I wanted to touch on […]

December 21, 2015

Matt Keer, member of NDCS, guest blogs for the NDCS blog (originally published here) on the Ofsted/CQC consultation on SEND inspections. […]

December 21, 2015

I never imagined that the Twelve Days of Christmas carol could take on a whole new meaning until I saw […]

December 20, 2015

Comments Off on Deaf News: Charities Deaf Plus and Deaf Access to merge

1st January 2016 will bring about change in the Deaf voluntary sector, as two long-established charities formally come together as […]

December 19, 2015

Comments Off on Read: Guardian article about how a mum of deaf girl has had to start teaching her A-Levels at home

This article in the Guardian is well worth a read. It’s about how delays in the new EHCP system for pupils […]

December 18, 2015

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a hearing aid company as part of a focus group on a […]

December 17, 2015

Comments Off on Meet: Deaf actor and director David Ellington, now Watershed’s Agent for Change

What kind of work do you do? I work as a director and producer for VS1 Productions, delivering TV/ film […]

December 16, 2015

We would like to join in recent discussions on social media in the British Sign Language community of what “BSL […]

December 15, 2015

Some questions drive me insane. Especially the question: ‘What is the meaning of life?’ Your answers will of course depend […]