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Deaf News: Lancashire Deaf Rights Group meet their local MP after lobbying him in Parliament

May 28, 2014

The members of the Lancashire Deaf Rights Group have met their local MP, Mark Hendrick (Preston) and the Leader of […]

Teresa Garratty: What it felt like to win the Ben Steiner bursary at Deaffest 2014!

May 28, 2014

This month I was lucky enough to win something called The Ben Steiner Bursary, which gives deaf film-makers an opportunity […]

Deaf News: Deaf football team concede 127 goals – after referees refuse to use flags instead of whistles

May 27, 2014

The Mirror has reported how a Deaf football team lost all but one of their fixtures last season and conceded […]

Colette Brewer: What’s different about growing up with a deaf sibling

May 27, 2014

I’m a SODA (Sibling of a Deaf Adult)… I have grown up with a deaf sister, who is two years […]

Michael Uniacke: The impossibility of chatting at a urinal when you’re deaf

May 26, 2014

Films often show scenes of women gathered in their powder room during interval at the cinema, or at a social […]

“I think we need to speak up for sign language.” Prof Graham Turner talks about his latest Edinburgh Fringe show

May 23, 2014

After making waves with the show ‘Send the Deaf to Orkney’ at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival (which he wrote about […]

Liam O’Dell: Are deaf people more empathetic?

May 23, 2014

Body language and communication experts, along with psychologists, have all stressed the importance of body language and gestures in communicating […]

Offensive or not? The ad for industrial noise compensation that shows a bar man speaking to a deaf customer by loud speaker

May 22, 2014

We’re not sure whether this advert for people who might seek compensation for noise-related hearing loss is the best way […]

NSPCC launches survey with Limping Chicken to find out if deaf adults know where to ask for help if they’re concerned about a child

May 22, 2014

The NSPCC has launched a survey with Limping Chicken, to find out if deaf adults know where they can report […]

Deaf News: Are Deaf people being left out of the Scottish independence debate?

May 21, 2014

Three months ago, Toby Dawson wrote an article for this site about how Scottish independence would be an opportunity for […]