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Deaf News: Deaf German blogger lipreads Euro 2012

June 20, 2012

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The German newspaper Der Spiegel’s website has reported that a deaf German blogger has become a Twitter hit by lipreading […]

Deaf News: Deaf woman rejected for jury service says she feels like a “second class citizen”

June 20, 2012

When Emma Ferguson-Coleman received a jury service summons, she wrote to HM Courts and Tribunal Service informing them that as […]

Watch: The trailer for ‘A Life Without Words’

June 20, 2012

At London’s Open City Doc Fest this Friday, a documentary about two deaf people in Nicaragua called ‘A Life Without […]

Review: Deaffest 2012

June 19, 2012

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For the first time in five years, Charlie Swinbourne went to the UK’s Deaf film and television festival Deaffest as […]

Meet: Alison Smith, founder of Pesky People

June 19, 2012

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Alison Smith hails from Glasgow but now lives in Shropshire with her partner, two dogs and two cats. Her background […]

Deaf News: NDCS says nearly half of deaf children are denied swimming lessons

June 18, 2012

The National Deaf Children’s Society says that deaf children are missing out on opportunities to learn to swim because of […]

The Secret Deafie: Cochlear implants and MRI scans

June 18, 2012

The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today’s Deafie wants to talk about cochlear […]

Deaf news in BSL from Remark: Jubilee celebrations | Deaf job seekers | US Deaf role model killed

June 15, 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! Jubilee […]

Aliya Gulamani: Teaching in Sri Lanka

June 15, 2012

I’ll be honest – my first few days in Sri Lanka were not my best days. I remember landing at […]

Watch: ‘Don’t leave me out!’ by CCAC

June 14, 2012

One week on from the #CaptionTHIS and #SubtitlesNOW Twitter campaigns, the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC) has released […]