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Deaf News: Short film starring six-year-old Deaf girl nominated for Oscar

January 23, 2018

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The Silent Child, a short film starring Maisie Sly, a six-year-old Deaf girl, has today been nominated for an Oscar […]

Andrew Niven: Do you work with customers? Here’s some tips for dealing with deaf people

January 23, 2018

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Yesterday I added a post to Facebook about customer service tips, sparked by my friend’s visit to Currys/PC world when […]

Deaf News: Deaf man complains after ANOTHER failed subtitled screening of Star Wars

January 22, 2018

Sign our petition for cinema multiplexes to give deaf people a dedicated subtitles screen here. Before Christmas, our story about […]

Andy Palmer: 6 clips from deaf films that will teach you about deaf people’s lives

January 21, 2018

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At weekends, we post some of our most popular blogs from our archive. In my last job I used to […]

Meet: Bruno Kahne, who teaches hearing people to communicate like deaf people

January 20, 2018

At weekends, we post some of our most popular blogs from our archive. Bruno Kahne has worked for the last […]

Charlie Swinbourne: I’ve experienced loneliness, like too many deaf people

January 19, 2018

With the appointment of a Minister for loneliness this week, looking to carry on the work of the late MP […]

Juliet England: Writing wrongs? Deafness in a group of wordsmiths

January 18, 2018

For the last seven or eight years, I’ve belonged to a merry band of wordsmiths called Reading Writers, the first […]

Watch: Dr Paddy Ladd opens up about his childhood in TV chat show #ad

January 17, 2018

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This is a sponsored post. Watch this episode online now, here. The first programme in BSL Zone’s brand news Close […]

Rebecca-Anne Withey: What you should know about my sign language interpreter (BSL)

January 16, 2018

I’ve had some veeeerrry irritating experiences regarding BSL interpreters and how people respond to me working with one. The comments, the questions, […]

Lianne Herbert: The word ‘inspiring’ is so cringeworthy

January 15, 2018

I visited London for the Magma 69 – ‘The Deaf Issue’ launch at the London Review Bookshop. I was very […]