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Deaf News: Deaf charities call on government to halt Access to Work changes that are pushing deaf people out of work

November 26, 2013 by

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Action on Hearing Loss (formerly RNID) and other leading deaf organisations including the British Deaf Association (BDA) are urgently calling […]

Chris Kubwimana: “Millions of deaf people do not have access to education.” How the charity Aurora Deaf Aid Africa was born

November 25, 2013 by

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Aurora Deaf Aid Africa is a Deaf-led organisation which has grown from humble roots to work towards improving Deaf education […]

Jen Dodds: I have no idea who the Access to Work petition campaigners are. I’m just grateful they’re doing something good

November 21, 2013 by

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The new stopchanges2atw campaign has really interested me, for two main reasons. Firstly, as someone who has been involved in […]

The Guardian publishes obituary for Deaf and disabled rights campaigner Arthur Verney

November 19, 2013 by

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The Guardian has published an obituary for the Deaf and disabled rights campaigner Arthur Verney, and it’s well worth reading […]

Steve Gibson: How teaching Deaf literacy has changed

November 19, 2013 by

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For a number of years, at various colleges across Britain, there were discrete classes in Literacy and Numeracy which Deaf […]

Deaf News: Deaf association files letter of complaint expressing “outrage” over BBC’s Holby City episode

November 15, 2013 by

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Following this week’s episode of Holby City, which showed a Deaf man’s daughter acting as his interpreter while he was […]

Catherine Drake: Why rude bus drivers go in my Room 101

November 13, 2013 by

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Most of my encounters with bus drivers have been pretty negative. As an extreme example, I once witnessed a bus […]

Deaf News: Deaf children’s choir pull out of annual Trafalgar Square carol service after officials say no backing music allowed

November 12, 2013 by

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The Evening Standard has reported that the NDCS deaf children’s choir, which signs in Trafalgar Square every Christmas, has pulled […]

Sign: Petition to stop changes to Access to Work provision for deaf people

November 12, 2013 by

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A new petition asking people to help stop changes to Access to Work has attracted nearly 1,500 signatures within 48 […]

Watch: The BSL Zone’s Punk Chef tries to convert a Deaf man who eats 26 packets of crisps a day!

November 11, 2013 by

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The BSL Zone’s cooking expert Punk Chef (aka Scott Garthwaite) has a mission: to get the Deaf community eating better, cooking better […]