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

July 18, 2022 by

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

Liam O’Dell: Ableist Love Island viewers could break Tasha after the show – producers must protect her mental health

July 17, 2022 by

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I am genuinely worried for Love Island‘s Tasha Ghouri when she leaves the ITV2 dating show. As she broke down in […]

Work on BSL Advisory Council ‘will continue to go ahead’ following Boris Johnson’s resignation, DWP confirm

July 8, 2022 by

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Recruitment for the council advising the UK Government on British Sign Language (BSL) will “continue to go ahead”, despite Boris […]

‘Bear Ear Clinic’ to give free ‘hearing aids’ to Norwich teddy bears

July 7, 2022 by

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Children in Norwich will be able to have their teddy bears fitted with ‘hearing aids’ this weekend, as part of […]

Love Island condemns ‘trolling’ as ‘horrible’ tweets attack Tasha’s deafness

July 4, 2022 by

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ITV2 dating show Love Island has condemned the online “trolling” of this year’s contestants, after friends of deaf cast member Tasha […]

Improved support for deaf children born to hearing parents to be explored in £1m study

July 4, 2022 by

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Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are to investigate how to best help deaf children from hearing families […]

Deaf woman allegedly accused of ‘sounding drunk’ after she ‘spoke too loudly’ in pub

July 1, 2022 by

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A Deaf woman who tried to order a drink at a Wetherspoon pub after her mother’s funeral was accused of […]

BSL Advisory Board will have ‘minimum of 16 members’

July 1, 2022 by

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The non-statutory group of British Sign Language (BSL) users advising the UK Government on the BSL Act will be made […]

Further advisory council details revealed as British Sign Language Act comes into force

June 29, 2022 by

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The non-statutory advisory board advising on the British Sign Language (BSL) Act will be made up of nine BSL users, […]

Channel 4 ‘breached licence conditions’ over subtitles outage, Ofcom investigation concludes

June 20, 2022 by

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Channel 4 breached the conditions of its broadcast licence when it suffered a subtitles outage last year, an investigation by […]

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