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Watch: New Deaf perspectives shared for BBC Radio 3 series ‘The Essay’

September 13, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

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BBC Radio 3’s audio series The Essay has produced a second collection of Deaf perspectives which will be broadcast this week, […]

Insight: My life as a CODA

September 12, 2022 by Rebecca A Withey

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I was brought up by my Mum who is deaf. Mum is profoundly deaf and wears a hearing aid. My […]

Cadbury and NDCS launch ‘Sign with Fingers’ campaign to get nation signing

August 31, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

The chocolate brand Cadbury has joined forces with the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) to encourage more hearing people to […]

Rose Ayling-Ellis to present ‘hard-hitting’ BBC documentary on deaf discrimination

August 25, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

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Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis is to explore the “daily challenges, discrimination and barriers faced by deaf individuals” in a new […]

Signature announces 50 shortlisted nominees for Hall of Fame event (with BSL video)

August 23, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

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Rose Ayling-Ellis, Lynn Stewart-Taylor, Daniel Jillings and Kevin Buckle are among the 50 nominees shortlisted to be part of Signature’s […]

‘Where Is The Interpreter’ compensation case to be heard at Royal Courts of Justice next month

August 22, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

A court hearing to determine whether more than 270 Deaf people should be compensated over ‘Where Is The Interpreter’ is […]

NRCPD CEO to step down in autumn ahead of regulator’s new strategy

July 26, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

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The Chief Executive Officer of NRCPD, Marcus Hawthorn, is to step down later this year, as he says it is […]

Deaf woman allegedly went five days without BSL interpreter in ‘worst hospital experience’ (with BSL video)

July 18, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

The family of a 60-year-old Deaf woman have accused a London NHS Trust of violating her human rights, after she […]

Applications open for UK Government’s BSL Advisory Board

July 18, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

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Applications to join the UK Government’s British Sign Language (BSL) Advisory Board have now opened, as work on implementing the […]

Liam O’Dell: Why I co-created a Twitter bot for BSL interpreter requests

July 18, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

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Not all social media bots are bad. For those of you who – like me – are avid Twitter users, […]