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Samuel Dore: How 2009’s horror thriller Orphan smartly integrated deafness and sign language into the plot

February 12, 2015 by

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I should mention beforehand Orphan is a film that contains American Sign Language (ASL) dialogue and I’m a British Sign […]

Diary of a Deaf Filmmaker, Month 8: Shooting my film!

February 11, 2015 by

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It feels like such a long time ago but it was only the beginning of January that we completed the […]

Read: Jackie Ashley’s Guardian article on the effects of refusing people hearing aids

February 10, 2015 by

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Jackie Ashley, daughter of the late deaf politician and campaigner Lord Jack Ashley, has written an article for the Guardian […]

Exclusive: Rebecca-Anne Withey interviews the director of the ASL version of Let it Go, Jules Dameron

February 10, 2015 by

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There is no denying that the Disney film Frozen has taken the world by storm. And its iconic song, Let […]

Jen Dodds: 5 things I’m watching out for in 2015 (BSL)

February 9, 2015 by

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We’re only a month into 2015, but several interesting things have cropped up in the Deaf community already! So, I […]

The Secret Deafie: I was abused by a Deaf man, but I don’t want to be called a victim OR a survivor

February 6, 2015 by

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The Secret Deafie is a regular column about deaf experiences submitted anonymously by different contributors. If you have a story […]

Matthew Johnston: What it’s like to swim with sound (after 49 years in silence)

February 5, 2015 by

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I have always swum in silence. Hearing aids are not waterproof and I have been profoundly deaf since birth. My […]

Deaf News: Deaf student takes legal action against government over planned cuts to support

February 4, 2015 by

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The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS), is backing 17 year old deaf student, Zanna Messenger-Jones from Ireleth, Cumbria, to initiate […]

Samuel Dore: The Frustrations of being a Deaf Cinephile

February 4, 2015 by

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I’m a kid of the 70’s and the 80’s when everything was analogue and celluloid. It was the era of […]

Deaf News: Health Minister promises working group on how mental health services are provided for BSL users

February 3, 2015 by

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The Deaf Health Charity SignHealth have welcomed the promise of a working group to look at the way mental health […]