Browsing Archives of Author »Charlie Swinbourne«

Laura’s pregnancy diary: Welcome to the world Poppy!

May 21, 2014

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Regular readers will be pleased to learn that Poppy was born on 8th May. Both mother and baby are happy […]

Deaf News: Researchers develop prototype of fully internal cochlear implant

May 21, 2014

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American researchers have developed a prototype cochlear implant which would be entirely internal, with no visible hardware on the outside […]

Jen Dodds: Some agencies treat freelance sign language interpreters as cash cows (BSL)

May 20, 2014

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Lately, there seems to have been a lot of tension between deaf people and BSL/English interpreters. I think this is […]

Watch: One mother’s mission to get the NHS using sign language

May 20, 2014

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Amelie Chan, aged 9, has Charge syndrome, a recognisable pattern of birth defects that occurs in about 1 in every […]

Charlie Swinbourne: Why I made the new Four Deaf Yorkshiremen comedy – which is online today!

May 19, 2014

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Watch Four Deaf Yorkshiremen go to Blackpool by clicking here! Late one night in 2006, I was watching television when […]

Meet: Stuart Harrison, Vice President of UK Deaf Sport and author of Same Spirit Different Team

May 19, 2014

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Stuart Harrison is the Vice Chair of UK Deaf Sports and has recently written a book called Same Spirit Different […]

“Our collective voice will be harder for decision makers to ignore.” BSL interpreters set up their own union

May 16, 2014

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In the wake of ongoing controversy about Access to Work and interpreting contracts, Limping Chicken has been told that a […]

“Can Deaf films be part of world cinema?” Deaf film maker Ted Evans talks movies ahead of Deaffest 2014

May 16, 2014

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The annual Deaffest film festival takes place in Wolverhampton starting tonight. The good and great of Britain’s creative deaf community […]

Watch: Video of Mark Thomas putting up deaf protest signs at Amazon HQ

May 15, 2014

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Here’s a video of TV comedian Mark Thomas putting up ‘LOVE FILM HATE DEAF PEOPLE’ signs at Amazon’s HQ in […]

Maartje De Meulder: What sign language recognition means for Deaf people in Denmark

May 15, 2014

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On Tuesday, the Danish Parliament unanimously recognized Danish Sign Language (Dansk Tegnsprog) by passing Law 61 amending the law on the Danish […]