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October 7, 2014 by Editor

Everyone knows about the Access to Work (AtW) problems that so many deaf people seem to have been having recently, […]

October 6, 2014 by Editor

Comments Off on Deaf News: ‘Next generation’ text relay service goes live

Ofcom have announced that deaf people and people with speech impairments should now be able to hold faster, more fluent […]

October 3, 2014 by Editor

Comments Off on “I’m still the same person with the same ambitions.” TV presenter Jacqui Hames on becoming deaf

Tell us about your life and career? After a pretty ordinary childhood in South London, in 1977 I joined the […]

October 2, 2014 by Editor

When I went back to the piano in my early forties, I decided not to mention my hearing loss to […]

October 2, 2014 by Editor

The leaders of the grass-roots campaign against changes to Access to Work for deaf workers have revealed their true identities. The campaign […]

September 29, 2014 by Editor

Recently, we received a copy of a letter from a Deaf mother to HMRC which made for difficult reading. Melanie […]

September 29, 2014 by Editor

Life is a bunch of straws. You pull some longs ones. You pull some short ones. Maybe you got born […]

September 29, 2014 by Editor

The shocking state of England’s children’s audiology services is revealed in a report published today. 1000 parents were consulted for […]

September 26, 2014 by Editor

Comments Off on Julie Platts: How the BDA’s Terry Riley helped support links between Deaf people and the police in Leicestershire

I am just writing to thank Terry Riley OBE (representing the British Deaf Association) for coming to our hometown of […]

September 26, 2014 by Editor

An often quoted statistic about deafness and hearing loss in the UK is that there are ten million people who […]