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Deaf News: Deaf football team concede 127 goals – after referees refuse to use flags instead of whistles

May 27, 2014 by

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The Mirror has reported how a Deaf football team lost all but one of their fixtures last season and conceded […]

Colette Brewer: What’s different about growing up with a deaf sibling

May 27, 2014 by

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I’m a SODA (Sibling of a Deaf Adult)… I have grown up with a deaf sister, who is two years […]

Michael Uniacke: The impossibility of chatting at a urinal when you’re deaf

May 26, 2014 by

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Films often show scenes of women gathered in their powder room during interval at the cinema, or at a social […]

Liam O’Dell: Are deaf people more empathetic?

May 23, 2014 by

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Body language and communication experts, along with psychologists, have all stressed the importance of body language and gestures in communicating […]

Offensive or not? The ad for industrial noise compensation that shows a bar man speaking to a deaf customer by loud speaker

May 22, 2014 by

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We’re not sure whether this advert for people who might seek compensation for noise-related hearing loss is the best way […]

NSPCC launches survey with Limping Chicken to find out if deaf adults know where to ask for help if they’re concerned about a child

May 22, 2014 by

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The NSPCC has launched a survey with Limping Chicken, to find out if deaf adults know where they can report […]

Deaf News: Are Deaf people being left out of the Scottish independence debate?

May 21, 2014 by

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Three months ago, Toby Dawson wrote an article for this site about how Scottish independence would be an opportunity for […]

Deaf News: Researchers develop prototype of fully internal cochlear implant

May 21, 2014 by

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American researchers have developed a prototype cochlear implant which would be entirely internal, with no visible hardware on the outside […]

Jen Dodds: Some agencies treat freelance sign language interpreters as cash cows (BSL)

May 20, 2014 by

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Lately, there seems to have been a lot of tension between deaf people and BSL/English interpreters. I think this is […]

Charlie Swinbourne: Why I made the new Four Deaf Yorkshiremen comedy – which is online today!

May 19, 2014 by

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Watch Four Deaf Yorkshiremen go to Blackpool by clicking here! Late one night in 2006, I was watching television when […]