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November 8, 2018

Comments Off on Worldwide Deaf community mourns Bernard Bragg, the ‘father of Visual Vernacular’

Over the last week, the Deaf community worldwide has been paying tributes to Bernard Bragg, the American Deaf actor, poet, writer, […]

November 8, 2018

Deaf children risk falling even further behind at school because of ballooning caseloads for specialist teachers, the National Deaf Children’s […]

November 7, 2018

A profoundly deaf teacher of English and BSL was among a dozen ‘inspirational’ educators from across England and Northern Ireland […]

November 6, 2018

Comments Off on Deaf News: Teacher’s social media post about Deaf kids not realising farts make a noise goes viral

A Teacher of the Deaf’s post on social media about the Deaf children in her class not realising that farts […]

November 6, 2018

Comments Off on Rikki Poynter: Businesses should be more respectful and accessible to deaf clients

In late August, I flew to New Jersey to see someone for their birthday. I booked us a nice hotel […]

November 5, 2018

Comments Off on Deaf News: New world record set for Largest Tactile Signing Lesson

Nearly 400 people have helped to achieve a new Guinness World Record for the ‘Largest Tactile Signing Lesson’, in an […]

November 2, 2018

In February this year I wrote my first article for the Limping Chicken, about the lack of accessible fire alarms […]

November 1, 2018

When my then two year old deaf daughter was attending playgroups, so many people noted how fluently she signed. “It’s […]

October 31, 2018

Comments Off on Thomas Irish: Why Deaf people should go into research

I was having a conversation with my Dad about deaf people entering research and thought I made a few good […]

October 30, 2018

Coffee shops and similar places often throw up considerable barriers to communication for deaf customers. Now coffee chain giant Starbucks […]