Dismay as Team GB withdraws from 2022 Deaflympics in Brazil

February 4, 2022
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Ami Kal: Deaf people still face unique challenges as pandemic drags on

February 3, 2022
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Left, Elsa, a young white woman, stands in her ice palace, lit up in an icy blue. Right, a young woman with curly ginger hair reaches out while on a ladder. She is excited.

Deaf girl unable to access Frozen and Hex musicals as theatres offer limited captioned performances

February 1, 2022
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Mary-Jayne Russell de Clifford: Parenting an autistic teenager who loves drama

February 1, 2022
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Dr Sara Rhys Jones: Why we’ve launched ACTivate Your Life, a Deaf Wellbeing online course (with BSL video)

January 31, 2022
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A woman signs in American Sign Language to a group of nine people on a video call on a tablet.

BSL Act Now: Government supports British Sign Language Bill with ASL video

January 29, 2022
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Rosie Cooper, a white woman with short curly brown hair, wears a black jacket, pink shirt and glasses as she stands in the House of Commons.

BREAKING: British Sign Language (BSL) Bill passes second reading in Commons

January 28, 2022
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A metal number '4' structure outside the offices of Channel 4 in London.

BREAKING: Channel 4 subtitles outage to be investigated by Ofcom

January 28, 2022
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'A Bill to declare British Sign Language (BSL) an official language of the United Kingdom; to provide for a British Sign Language Council to promote and advise on the use of BSL; to establish principles for the use of BSL in public services; to require public bodies to have regard to those principles and to guidance issued by the Council; and for connected purposes.'

BSL Act Now: What does the British Sign Language Bill actually say?

January 27, 2022
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, a white man with combed over black hair in a black suit, speaks at the dispatch box in the House of Commons, rows of green seats behind him.

UK Government ‘making application’ to appeal ruling that National Disability Strategy was unlawful

January 27, 2022
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