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Two white hands shake hands above a wooden table.

Liam O’Dell: Do Deaf people know enough about loan sharks? (BSL)

March 16, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: access, accessibility, british sign language, BSL, deaf community, deaf culture, deaf identity, deaf news, deafness, disability, finances, hard of hearing, money

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A brown boy with short black hair and glasses in school, at a desk, fingerspelling.

220,000 primary school children learn sign in ‘UK’s largest ever online BSL’ lesson

March 15, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: access, accessibility, bda, british deaf association, british sign language, BSL, campaign, communication, deaf, deaf access, deaf children, deaf culture, deaf education, deaf identity, deaf news, deafness, disability, sign language, signature

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Insight: The difficulties of being a freelancer and using BSL interpreters (BSL)

March 14, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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Rebecca A Withey: Derby Theatre tell me about their newest production, Robin Hood and the Major Oak (BSL)

March 13, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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Four adventurers in medieval-style clothing lit up in a red light. There are stone sculptures to the left of the photo, and in the centre, a white man reaches behind his back for a sword.

Deaf cinemagoers to be among the first to see new Dungeons and Dragons movie with captioned previews

March 10, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

Tagged: access, accessibility, captions, cinema, cinema subtitles, cinemas, communication, deaf, deaf access, deaf culture, deaf identity, deaf news, deafness, hard of hearing, subtitles

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Review: Ray Bradshaw at South Street Arts Centre, Reading (BSL)

March 10, 2023
by Juliet England

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Rebecca A Withey: Do you dream in sign or sound? (BSL)

March 9, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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Lidia Best: World Hearing Day 2023 (BSL)

March 8, 2023
by Editor

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A classroom. In the foreground is a stack of pens and post-it notes on a white desk. In the background, blurred, there are more desks, with a laptop placed on one of them.

iBSL shares open letter detailing plans for current learners as it confirms closure in ‘next couple of months’ (BSL)

March 7, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: british sign language, BSL, bsl courses, communication, deaf, deaf culture, deaf identity, deaf news, deafness, hard of hearing, sign language

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Parents and pupils outside Laycock Primary School protesting. They hold signs such as ‘save our deaf unit’ and ‘protect education for deaf children’.

Parents celebrate ‘huge win’ as planned staffing cuts to deaf unit at Islington primary school scrapped

March 6, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: access, campaign, campaigner, campaigning, campaigns, communication, deaf, deaf access, deaf children, deaf education, deaf identity, deaf news, deafness, disability, hard of hearing, london, ndcs, parent, parenting, parents, politics, uk, uk politics

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