Browsing Archives of Author »Charlie Swinbourne«

Deaf News: RAD launches BSL post-it note to help get hearing people signing

December 12, 2014

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Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD), a supporter of this site, is delighted to announce it is working with the […]

Emily Howlett: What I learned from watching how shadow interpreting works, for a Christmas play in Derby

December 12, 2014

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A Buxton based theatre company have joined forces with Derby LIVE for the second year running, to bring a fully […]

How remote captioning has transformed the careers of two deaf employees

December 11, 2014

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Earlier this week, our supporter Ai-Media was mentioned in the House of Lords. Here, two deaf people who use their […]

Official NRCPD response to this morning’s article on qualifying to be an interpreter by undergraduate degree course

December 11, 2014

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Below is an official response from the NRCPD to this morning’s article by an anonymous writer about people qualifying to be […]

Anonymous: If people can register as a BSL interpreter with just a degree, the Deaf community’s doomed

December 11, 2014

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Yesterday, like every day, I read my daily news from The Limping Chicken when I came across Jen Dodds’s article about […]

Deaf News: EE teams up with Sign Solutions to give access to Deaf customers in BSL!

December 10, 2014

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The UK’s largest mobile operator and internet service provider, EE, has teamed up with one of our supporters, the sign […]

Meet: Geraldine Rooney, who defied the odds (and her lecturer) to become a deaf nurse

December 10, 2014

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Last year, Geraldine Rooney hit the headlines when she achieved her dream of becoming a nurse twenty years after being […]

Only day nursery with facilities for Deaf children in Tower Hamlets is now safe, says local Mayor

December 9, 2014

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In recent weeks, we published several articles about Overland Children’s Centre in Tower Hamlets, which had been threatened with closure. […]

Jen Dodds: On something that’s boring, but really, really important – the National Framework Agreement (BSL)

December 9, 2014

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So today, I’ve got something that’s a bit boring to tell you, but please don’t go away! Sometimes the boring […]

Rebecca Atkinson: Why I wrote the Christmas drama Tree Fairy for Deaf children

December 8, 2014

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Tree Fairy, the BSL Zone’s children’s Christmas drama is airing this week on digital TV and can also be seen […]