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What happened when our Editor Charlie Swinbourne spoke to Odeon’s bosses

December 22, 2017

Please sign (and ask your friends and family to sign) Charlie’s petition for better cinema access for Deaf people, here. After […]

Charlie Swinbourne: Science may soon ‘cure’ deafness, but Deaf culture’s loss would be tragic (BSL)

December 21, 2017

Last night, it was reported that there’s been a breakthrough in treating genetic hearing loss as gene editing has been shown to […]

Lidia Best: With cinema subtitles, mine is a tale of two countries

December 21, 2017

Recently, a new petition to improve access to cinemas for deaf and hard of hearing people in UK was set […]

Sign our petition for multiplex cinemas to dedicate one screen to subtitled films

December 19, 2017

Following the uproar over Odeon Cinemas removing the subtitles from a deaf-accessible screening after complaints from hearing people in the […]

Charlie Swinbourne: 5 ways cinemas could give deaf people a better deal

December 19, 2017

After posting this article, Charlie started a petition to try and make point 1, multiplexes dedicating one screen to subtitled […]

Odeon allegedly turns off subtitles at deaf-accessible screening of new Star Wars film after complaints from HEARING people

December 18, 2017

Please sign our petition asking all multiplex cinemas to dedicate one screen to subtitled films, by clicking here. A group […]

Teresa Garratty: 8 Christmas cracker jokes about deaf people!

December 18, 2017

Here we go again, we can’t put it off any longer…Christmas is nearly upon us. There’s lots of things to […]

Charlie Swinbourne: 10 things you should NEVER give a deaf person for Christmas

December 16, 2017

1. DVD without subtitles Buying us a DVD without subtitles is a bit like giving a hearing person a DVD […]

Charlie Swinbourne: 9 things we learned from C4’s documentary about Mary Hare school

December 15, 2017

Channel 4’s Extraordinary Teens documentary (watch it here) went out last night, and quickly became one of the top 5 […]

Emily Howlett: The 12 Days of Deaf Christmas

December 15, 2017

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my deafness gave to me… Twelve bags of freebies. (No, I wasn’t invited to […]