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Poem: ‘Labels’ by Colin Thomson

December 14, 2012 by

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Do you see me or the labels given to me So kindly by society? Do I fit into a category […]

Deaf News: Action on Hearing Loss survey shows 46% of deaf people unhappy with news subtitles

December 13, 2012 by

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  The UK charity Action on Hearing Loss is calling on producers of television news programmes to ensure that timely […]

William Mager: Billy 2.0 – Activate!

December 12, 2012 by

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A month since the operation, and I feel fine. There is however one unfortunate side effect which I need to […]

Georgie Barraclough: Dear Access to Work…

December 11, 2012 by

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Dear Access to Work, Thank you for your response to my application for equipment to assist me with hearing in […]

Watch: The Deaf Sports Personality of the Year Awards – in full!

December 10, 2012 by

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Kudos to the organisers of the Deaf Sports Personality of the Year awards for making the entire ceremony available online […]

Charlie Swinbourne: Communication barriers in sex education put deaf people at risk

December 7, 2012 by

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There is a telling moment in a documentary called Snapshot: Dicing with Sex when a group of young deaf people […]

Deaf News: Scam awareness video launched in BSL for Deaf people

December 7, 2012 by

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There’s growing evidence that deaf people are being targeted as part of online scams, which is why a new video […]

Charlie Swinbourne: How Deaf filmmaker Ted Evans’s career hit new heights at the Paralympics

December 6, 2012 by

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In August, 80,000 people piled into London’s Olympic stadium for the spectacular opening ceremony for the 2012 Paralympic Games. But […]

Thumbs Up: Nick Beese’s ‘BSLphabet’ typefont!

December 6, 2012 by

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Nick Beese, who is a Senior Visual Designer for the BBC, has created a unique typefont that combines the written alphabet […]

William Mager: Lord Jack Ashley of Stoke – The Measure of the Man

December 5, 2012 by

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F Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: ‘There are no second acts in American lives.”He never met Jack Ashley, an Englishman who […]