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Alex Nowak: How I set up Sri Lanka’s first Deaf film festival!

October 17, 2014 by

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British Deaf actor Alex Nowak recently set up Sri Lanka’s first deaf film festival in May. Here he tells the story: […]

Darren Townsend-Handscomb: 6 suggestions for the Access to Work Select Committee (who had no BSL interpreter yesterday)

October 16, 2014 by

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(If you want to skip straight to what you can do, go straight to the suggestions at the bottom.) Yesterday, […]

Richard Turner: Discovering music again with a cochlear implant

October 16, 2014 by

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I have always loved listening to music. When I was a teenager and in my early twenties living in Manchester […]

Callum Fox: How Japanese Manga comic A Silent Voice explores being a deaf teenager

October 15, 2014 by

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“I wish we had never met. I wish we could meet once again. A boy who can hear, Shoya Ishida, […]

Emily Howlett: For my young son, signing is last week’s trick. Speech has taken over…

October 14, 2014 by

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Do you know, even before there was the remotest chance I might ever become a mother, I was a great […]

Jonathan Reid: Purley, “where deaf people in London go to die”

October 11, 2014 by

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Every Saturday morning, we are publishing one popular article from our archive, which you might have missed the first time […]

Deaf News: Key sign language mental health service for Deaf people “slowly dying” due to lack of NHS funds (BSL)

October 10, 2014 by

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A mental health service for Deaf people has been forced to cut much-needed staff due to lack of funding, just […]

Olivier Jeannel: How RogerVoice aims to bring phone calls to deaf people

October 10, 2014 by

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I’m sitting in an office, in a clean white shirt and tie, impatiently tapping my fingers on the desk. My […]

Graham Johnston: Deafness is still a barrier to learning new skills on short courses

October 8, 2014 by

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For those who do not know who I am, my name is Graham Johnston, and I am 46 years old. […]

Mark Levin: The online videos that really inspire me (and don’t involve people hearing for the first time)

October 8, 2014 by

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The Deaf community has been up in arms the past couple of months about viral stories that have been dominating […]