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Mike Fahey: The perils of a hospital appointment when you’re deaf

June 16, 2015

As austerity rolls on and the NHS struggles to cope on reduced budgets, maybe a good dose of the awareness […]

Read: Losing your sight as a deaf person, William Mager’s article for BBC News

June 15, 2015

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The most recent episode of See Hear (see it by clicking here) featured a fantastic item on deafblindness. Now, the […]

Deaf News: Children’s charities urge government to protect benefits for deaf and disabled children

June 15, 2015

Blind Children UK, the National Deaf Children’s Society, RNIB and national deafblind charity Sense are today calling on the […]

Rebekah Rose-Mundy: I love being me. I love being deaf

June 15, 2015

I love being me, I love being deaf… yep I do. I love the fact that I am my own […]

Deaf News: NDCS says new Special Educational Needs system could leave Deaf children without vital support

June 13, 2015

New Government figures have raised fresh concerns that changes to the system of guaranteed help for children with special educational […]

Update: Huge response to Deaf Norwich man’s plight results in interpreter attending father’s funeral

June 12, 2015

The Eastern Daily Press has reported that the Deaf man from Norwich had an interpreter for his father’s funeral today after an […]

Andy Palmer: Great Britain’s Deaf footballers deserve our admiration

June 12, 2015

A line of six-year-old footballers sat on the side of the lush-green Letchworth Eagles pitch on a sunny early summer’s […]

Deaf News: Can you help? Norwich Deaf man without interpreter for father’s funeral tomorrow

June 11, 2015

Update: After an amazing response, the man had an interpreter for the funeral today: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/interpreter_found_for_deaf_norwich_man_ahead_of_his_father_s_funeral_1_4109681 It’s been reported by the Eastern […]

Deaf News: 6 year old boy asked to take off hearing aid for school photo

June 11, 2015

There’s been controversy today after a story broke about a 6 year old boy who stopped wearing his hearing aids […]

Rebecca Atkinson: Barbie just got more diverse, but not diverse enough!

June 11, 2015

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The undisputed plastic queen of the toy box just got a whole lot more diverse, or at least global toy […]