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Jonathan Reid: Purley, “where deaf people in London go to die”

March 14, 2015

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Every weekend, we are publishing popular articles from our archive, which you might have missed the first time round! Tell us which […]

Maartje De Meulder: Finland’s new sign language act was approved yesterday. Here’s what it means

March 13, 2015

Yesterday, the Finnish Parliament voted in favour of the “Sign Language Act”. Now the first thing you might think when […]

Deaf News: DWP’s new Access to Work cap criticised for being a “cap on the aspirations of deaf young people”

March 12, 2015

The Government has been criticised for setting a cap on the amount of Access to Work support people with disabilities […]

Deaf News: Victory for deaf student backed by NDCS as government retreats on cuts to Disabled Students’ Allowance

March 12, 2015

Deaf student Zanna Messenger-Jones has forced the Government to back down on proposed restrictions to the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA). […]

Deaf News: Accessible Deaf ‘Question time’ video available from tomorrow

March 12, 2015

On Monday last week (2 March) leading disability spokespeople from the UK’s three main political parties fielded questions from a […]

Go see: Subtitled film screenings (with BSL interpreted Q & As) at BFI Flare in London

March 11, 2015

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BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival has announced a limited number of priority position tickets set aside for Deaf and […]

Emily Howlett: Mindfulness and Deaf identity

March 11, 2015

I’ve been involved with a few things recently that have really got me thinking about me. Not in a me-me-me […]

Juliet England: As a call to my hospital showed, some people just don’t get Text Relay

March 10, 2015

Ah, the old textphone. Great giver of communication and transformer of unintelligible sound into understandable, readable words. I do love […]

ISIS tries to attract deaf members using sign language recruitment video

March 9, 2015

The Mail online (who unfortunately use the term deaf-mutes in their article) has reported: The Islamic State has released a […]