Liam O'Dell

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August 24, 2020

The BBC refused a request from Government officials to broadcast the daily coronavirus briefings on BBC One with a British […]

August 20, 2020

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to better its support for deaf customers using video relay, it has […]

August 5, 2020

Comments Off on Revealed: UK Government failed to consider equalities impact for coronavirus briefings

The UK Government did not carry out an Equalities Impact Assessment for its daily statements on coronavirus, The Limping Chicken […]

July 29, 2020

The deaf activist behind the campaign to have a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter present at UK Government briefings has […]

July 25, 2020

Comments Off on Deaf News: Deafblind woman allegedly verbally abused after sister removes face covering for lipreading

A deafblind woman was allegedly verbally abused by another rail passenger after her sister briefly removed her face covering to […]

July 23, 2020

Comments Off on Interview: Sophie Stone and Lloyd Coleman on radio drama Beethoven Can Hear You

There’s a particular irony in talking to Lloyd Coleman over Google Meet. The deaf musician, who’s been commissioned to write […]

July 20, 2020

While the current pandemic is far from over, a lot of people are still looking ahead to the future with […]

July 7, 2020

Comments Off on Deaf News: Bristol NHS Nightingale Hospital responds to Makaton controversy

Bristol’s NHS Nightingale Hospital has confirmed that their use of Makaton is “solely as a staff to staff communication mechanism”, […]

July 1, 2020

The issue of a lack of subtitled cinema has been a topic long discussed on The Limping Chicken, even before […]