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Ahmed Khalifa: Subtitles please – comic book characters are impossible to lipread

September 7, 2018

Ever since I was a child, I have been defiant and keep insisting that I should go to the cinema […]

Juliet England: Proms with a hearing loss

September 6, 2018

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Ah, the Proms. The great British music festival that’s been going since 1895, and that’s looked on with envy around […]

Watch: BSL video from the Grenfell Tower Community Monitoring Project

September 5, 2018

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A BSL video has been released by the Grenfell Tower Community Monitoring Project, informing Deaf BSL users from the area […]

Deafblind signers gain access to VRS service in BSL in Scotland

September 4, 2018

ContactSCOTLAND-BSL, Scotland’s nationally funded online British Sign Language/English interpreting video relay service (VRS), delivered by Sign Language Interactions on behalf […]

Rebecca-Anne Withey: When did others decide they know what’s best for Deaf people?

September 3, 2018

It’s a funny old world we live in. Just when I think everything is going smoothly – Access to Work […]

Deaf children’s services to be debated by MPs in Parliament

August 31, 2018

MPs are set to discuss deaf children’s services in Parliament in two weeks time, after a Labour politician successfully secured […]

Juliet England: The testing hearing test

August 29, 2018

I arrive at the hospital early. Someone after whom I am hankering ridiculously, against hope, reason and expectation, works here, […]

Ai-Media: 7 Things Deaf People Want You To Know

August 24, 2018

This was originally posted on Ai-Media’s site here, and is shared by kind permission. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people often experience […]

Juliet England: Treading the boards with a hearing loss: Act III

August 23, 2018

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A few Saturday evenings ago, I walked offstage for the final time at Reading’s twelfth century abbey as Progress Theatre’s […]

Carly Sygrove: My ever-present tinnitus

August 22, 2018

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? – An unwanted ear-worm that keeps playing over and over? […]