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

Free sign language lesson to be made available to primary schools next month (with BSL video)

February 7, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

Posted in: deaf news

Rebecca A Withey: Contending with cultural appropriation in the music industry (BSL)

February 7, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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Left, Damaris, a brown woman with curly brown hair and a blue suit, signing 'thank you'. Right, Rolf, a white man with short black hair and a black suit, with his two hands out in front of him.

Interview: Rolf Choutan and Damaris Cooke on being BT Sport’s new BSL presenters (BSL)

February 4, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

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Interview: Sarah Marsh on her debut historical novel A Sign of Her Own, featuring Alexander Graham Bell (BSL)

February 2, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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Deaf vet Julie Beckett, tells us about the danger of dog collars (BSL vlog with English transcript)

February 2, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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Mobile captioning app rolls out in West End theatres while charity warns against ‘one size fits all’ (BSL)

February 1, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: access, accessibility, accessible theatre, captions, communication, deaf, deaf access, deaf culture, deaf identity, deaf news, deafness, disability, hard of hearing, stagetext, subtitles, theatre, theatre access

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Michael Woods on his passion for mountaineering and his ambition to climb Mount Everest! (BSL)

February 1, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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A white woman on the right with blonde hair signs to a Black person on the left. They are both smiling.

‘As You Like It’ cast praised for handling heckler who reportedly claimed BSL performance was ‘discriminating against hearing people’ (BSL)

January 30, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

Posted in: deaf news

Insight: Life as a deaf mid-40 singleton, hitting the dating scene! (BSL)

January 27, 2023
by Rebecca A Withey

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The exterior of the Britannia Hotel in Manchester.

Deafblind man allegedly turned away from Manchester hotel after requesting free Wi-Fi as access need (BSL)

January 25, 2023
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: access, accessibility, british sign language, BSL, bsl interpretation, communication, deaf, deaf access, deaf culture, deaf identity, deaf news, deafblind, deafblindness, deafness, disability

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