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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 […]

Watch: Politicians debate deaf issues in See Hear’s election special

April 2, 2015 by

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In See Hear’s election special, which aired yesterday on BBC2, legendary Deaf presenter Clive Mason puts politicians under the spotlight […]

Jen Dodds: BSL/English interpreters are for hearing people too (BSL)

April 1, 2015 by

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Since I wrote an article for NUBSLI recently, I’ve been thinking about how words affect the way we behave and […]

Diary of a Deaf Filmmaker, Month 10: Will the audience see my film as a Deaf film or not?

March 30, 2015 by

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It’s not long until my film The Quiet Ones premières at this years Deaffest, so I’m beginning to wonder, “Who is […]

Anonymous: How my son benefited from accessing his education with skilled sign language support

March 29, 2015 by

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Karen Stockton: Not everyone can adjust to digital hearing aids after a lifetime of analogue

March 28, 2015 by

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Every weekend, we are publishing popular articles from our archive, which you might have missed the first time round! Tell us which […]