Browsing Archives of Author »Charlie Swinbourne«

Carly Sygrove: Living with Single-Sided Deafness

June 7, 2019

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I lost the hearing in my left ear through sudden hearing loss in August 2016. There wasn’t a known cause […]

Survey: Tell us what you think of Limping Chicken!

June 6, 2019

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In the seven years since I started this site, we’ve posted over 3500 blogs, and clocked up over 6 million […]

Paul Redfern: It’s time to protect Deaf children from sexual abuse

June 4, 2019

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Paul Redfern is a Deaf facilitator at the Truth Project, part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.  To […]

Deaf News: Deaf people invited to share experiences of child sexual abuse with Truth Project (BSL)

June 4, 2019

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To see this in BSL, click here. The Truth Project is launching a new service to enable Deaf people who […]

Tyron Woolfe: What’s #motherfatherwell all about? Read on… (with BSL)

May 29, 2019

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MotherFatherWell? What is #motherfatherwell? There’s even a hashtag on it(!) Watch Tyron signing his article below, or scroll down to […]

Lynne Farley: Parenting When You Can’t Hear ****

May 28, 2019

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When you first leave the hospital as a new parent, it is a surreal experience. A tiny scrap of life […]

Joy Darby: Children’s books teaching deaf awareness skills  

May 27, 2019

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Books are a great way of educating young children and books about deafness can break through barriers, setting up a […]

Deaf News: Walsall Deaf People’s Centre to close

May 24, 2019

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In a huge blow for the Deaf community in the West Midlands, it has been announced that Walsall Deaf People’s […]

Jane Mervyn: A Deaf parent-to-be’s experience with the NHS and NCT

May 16, 2019

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I am a profoundly deaf BSL user and I can lip read. My communication preference is my first language of […]

Tyron Woolfe: My memories of acting in BBC drama The Count of Solar as a 14 year old

May 15, 2019

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I remember being called to the Head’s office at Burwood Park School for the Deaf.  I was 13 years old […]