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Tributes paid to Deaf footballer Huseyin Er

May 17, 2021

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Tributes have been paid to the Deaf footballer Huseyin Er, who was a star player for St John’s Deaf Football […]

Camilla Arnold: How CBeebies’ Magic Hands’ new series focuses on Black History Songs

May 13, 2021

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Magic Hands: Black History Songs will be shown 11.20am from Monday to Friday next week on CBeebies, and will also […]

Ai-Media: Tips for Being Deaf-Aware

May 10, 2021

This article was written by our friends and supporters, Ai-Media. Communication is an essential part of life, but Deaf and […]

Watch: CBBC’s 10-minute BSL monologue drama ‘Freestyle’

May 7, 2021

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Freestyle, a 10 minute monologue in BSL, can be seen on BBC iPlayer, about a deaf swimmer. It was co-written […]

Deaf News: Ofcom launches survey on BSL on TV and video-on-demand services

May 7, 2021

Ofcom has launched a survey for people who use British Sign language (BSL) to tell then what they think about signing on TV and video-on-demand services. They […]

Alison Hendry: My open letter about the impact of my university lecturer’s words (BSL)

May 6, 2021

In this video, Alison Hendry signs an open letter about the impact of her university lecturer’s words and how that […]

Sarah Playforth: What a captioned telephone service could offer deaf people

May 5, 2021

When Damian Barry set up a FaceBook group to campaign for provision of a captioned telephone service in the UK, […]

On-demand lipspeaking service LipsLive announced

May 4, 2021

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An innovative new on-demand lipspeaking service called LipsLive™ has been announced, aimed at levelling the playing field for deaf and hard of hearing […]

Emily Howlett: We need Deaf representation in real life as well as on screen

April 30, 2021

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So, there’s been a lot of discussion around deaf representation recently. There have been vlogs, chat shows, petitions and campaigns. […]

Nicky Evans: Why we are asking people to invest in interpreting co-op Signalise

April 29, 2021

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What is a Co-operative and why do people invest? You may remember I wrote about the need for an interpreting co-op back […]