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William Mager: Starting a journey of known unknowns

October 8, 2012

Donald Rumsfeld once said: There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; […]

Deaf News: Deaf people more careful with their language, Guardian says

October 8, 2012

The Guardian has reported that the findings of the BSL Corpus Project suggest that Deaf people are more careful with […]

Deaf news in BSL from Remark: Deaf gene discovered | America’s ‘Deaf City’ | Are deaf people more at risk of assault?

October 8, 2012

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Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! Deafness […]

The Secret Deafie: Signing on the tube

October 8, 2012

The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today’s Deafie tells us about an incident […]

Diary of a deaf dad: The green-eyed monster

October 5, 2012

Deaf Dad is an anoymous blog that we just had to share with you on Limping Chicken. You can read […]

Charlie Swinbourne: Don’t knock The Beatles’ song Love Me Do. It got me into music

October 4, 2012

This week marks 50 years since The Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do. Since the group lasted 8 […]

Ni Gallant: Starting university… and wearing my hearing aids for 17 hours straight

October 4, 2012

I’m writing this sat in the laundry room of my university. From what I can work out there are 3 […]

Cathy Heffernan: Report from DCAL’s Deaf Children’s Development Conference

October 3, 2012

On the face of it, lipreading someone and reading a book are two wholly separate skills. But research suggests Deaf […]

Lynette Taylor: A Role for Sign Language Interpreters – Preserving the Linguistic Human Rights of Deaf People

October 3, 2012

First published on America’s Street Leverage community blog, offering sign language interpreters context and insight on industry related issues and […]

US Deaf News: Deaf school disqualified from hosting Taylor Swift concert

October 2, 2012

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Gawker has reported that Horace Mann School for the Deaf, which was targeted by internet pranksters who thought it’d be […]