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Emily Howlett: Covid time and how it differs from other times

August 24, 2021

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I’ve found myself talking about ‘covid time’ a lot recently. Not just to my houseplants and George, my long-suffering Hearing […]

Alison Hendry: My experience of being a cochlear implant user (BSL vlog)

August 2, 2021

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Alison Hendry is a profoundly Deaf BSL user currently working at the University of Edinburgh as their BSL Officer. Proud […]

Sally Austen: Why we created a book about clinical and legal work with deaf clients

July 30, 2021

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To buy the book, click here. Have you seen the term ‘organisational memory’? It refers to knowledge being passed within […]

Charlotte Hyde: The pros and cons of self-advocacy

July 22, 2021

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A couple of months ago, I gave a talk at the University of Reading Disability and Neurodiversity Research Showcase. In […]

Chris Mullen: Deaf people and the human rights time machine: What year are we in?

July 16, 2021

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Outside my work at the National Deaf Children’s Society, I’ve recently started volunteering as a school speaker for Amnesty International: […]

Emily Howlett: Communication advice for mixed deaf/hearing groups

July 7, 2021

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As we slowly start to return to a world where some people are leaving their homes for work again, I’ve […]

Roger Beeson: Imagine

July 5, 2021

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Imagine… court cases about deaf communication in which judges know diddly squat about deaf communication. Imagine a case about the […]

John Walker: How we teach D/deaf to students in higher education (and how I don’t teach it)

June 29, 2021

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University of Sussex is one of the several institutions in the UK that teaches Deaf Studies to undergraduate students as […]

Emily Howlett: The debate about big D and little d

June 28, 2021

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Who are you? That’s a pretty big question to open with, I know. But it can be both incredibly difficult […]

Alison Hendry: Working in the office vs working from home in the pandemic (BSL Vlog)

June 25, 2021

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Alison Hendry is a profoundly Deaf BSL user currently working at the University of Edinburgh as their BSL Officer. Proud […]