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Matt Dixon: Ten essential things to know about being a child of deaf parents

December 17, 2013

My name is Matt Dixon and I’m the grown-up child of deaf parents. My parents, my brother and sister are […]

Deaf News: Scandal of deaf man ‘treated as if he had dementia’ in hospital

December 17, 2013

Yesterday we wrote about how Deaf people in Britain are struggling to access sign language and communication support, particularly in […]

Deaf News: ‘Fake’ Interpreter allegedly ‘burned man to death’ according to family and friends

December 16, 2013

Thamsanqa Jantjie, the man accused of being a bogus interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s Memorial Service last week and caused an […]

The Secret Deafie: How I used the Deaf Card to outsmart an angry man

December 16, 2013

I watched as he came around the corner. He was angry. Very angry. I ignored him and carried on with […]

Donna Williams: Paul Whitehouse rubbed the ‘fake’ interpreter controversy in deaf people’s faces

December 14, 2013

Maybe it’s just me. But I’m not seeing the funny. At the British Comedy Awards on Thursday night, Paul Whitehouse picked […]

The Weekend Selection: When The World met The Chicken

December 14, 2013

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It’s been a phenomenal week for the site, after we broke the news that the interpreter at the Nelson Mandela […]

Charlie Swinbourne: How our news article triggered worldwide coverage of the ‘fake’ sign language interpreter story

December 13, 2013

I don’t think I ever thought that one day, through this site, I’d get to break a news story that – […]

Deaf News: ‘Fake’ interpreter faced murder charge in 2003

December 13, 2013

This story gets more and more bizarre by the hour. A South African website has revealed that Thamasanqa Jantjie was allegedly charged […]

Professor Graham Turner: 10 lessons from the tale of the ‘fake’ interpreter

December 13, 2013

We may have thought sign language interpreting reached peak prominence when the Queen was shadowed by an interpreter at the […]

Deaf News: London’s DCAL centre casts doubt on ‘fake’ signer’s claims of schizophrenic signing

December 13, 2013

The Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, which is based in London, has cast doubt on the Mandela memorial signer’s […]