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Deaf News: Royal School for the Deaf in Derby placed in special measures

April 22, 2015 by

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The Derby Telegraph has reported: THE Royal School for the Deaf Derby has been placed in special measures after it […]

Deirdre Maguire: Why you should go to the IUK Deaf Camp for young Irish and British Deaf people

April 21, 2015 by

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Hello! My name is Deirdre and I’m the coordinator for IUK camp this year. Before I start telling you why […]

Watch: Irina Drytchak’s poem CODA about being a Child Of Deaf Adults

April 20, 2015 by

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Irina Drytchak got in touch with us last week to tell us about a signed poetry clip she has written […]

Andy Palmer: 6 clips from deaf films that will teach you about deaf people’s lives

April 18, 2015 by

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At weekends and bank holidays, we publish popular articles from our archive, which you might have missed the first time round! Tell […]

Emily Howlett: Five famous deaf people you should know about

April 17, 2015 by

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Think Deaf People Can’t Achieve? Think Again. There’s rather a lot going on in British politics right now, and not […]

Writer Glen Laker tells us how having a deaf son led him to include a deaf character in Sunday’s episode of Vera on ITV1

April 16, 2015 by

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I’ve been writing for 20 years, much of it alongside a day job, where I worked in Access Services at […]

Read: Jenny Sealey’s Guardian blog: “We will not let government cuts make us invisible”

April 14, 2015 by

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The Artistic Director of Graeae theatre company, Jenny Sealey, who is Deaf, has written a blog for the Guardian about […]

Rebecca-Anne Withey: Sign language shouldn’t be used for novelty value by people who don’t understand its content

April 14, 2015 by

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As someone who works in signed song – that is, performing songs in sign language – my first priority is […]

Meriah Nichols: I don’t agree that sign language will die out because of technology

April 10, 2015 by

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Andrew Solomon wrote a book called “Far From the Tree” that was all the rage a couple of years ago. […]

Gary Williams: Introducing the deafPLUS Manifesto

April 8, 2015 by

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Readers can hardly have failed to notice that the 2010 – 2015 Parliament has come to a close and that […]