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Revealed: UK Government provided own BSL interpreter for vaccine briefing

December 9, 2020 by

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Downing Street has confirmed that it provided an online British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter for its press conference on the […]

Watch: Deaf father forced to use hearing son as interpreter for insurance phone call

November 27, 2020 by

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Deaf people have voiced their frustration after a video surfaced on social media showing a hearing son having to interpret […]

Exclusive: BBC declined Government request to show signed Coronavirus briefings on BBC One

August 24, 2020 by

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The BBC refused a request from Government officials to broadcast the daily coronavirus briefings on BBC One with a British […]

Deaf News: DWP to improve services for deaf customers in new legal agreement

August 20, 2020 by

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to better its support for deaf customers using video relay, it has […]

Anonymous: If people can register as a BSL interpreter with just a degree, the Deaf community’s doomed

December 11, 2014 by

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Yesterday, like every day, I read my daily news from The Limping Chicken when I came across Jen Dodds’s article about […]

Meet: Craig Jones, who runs CJ Interpreting Service, which is Deaf-led

October 30, 2014 by

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One of our newest supporters is CJ Interpreting Service. Here, Craig Jones, who is also Deaf, tells us about the […]

The Secret Deafie: I was livid when my Deaf grandmother had an operation without being able to communicate with nurses

June 16, 2014 by

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Do you have a story or experience you’d like to share? If you’d like to write a Secret Deafie column, […]

Dana Gornall: Why I became an interpreter

January 15, 2014 by

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Sign Language fascinated me from very early on. I have a clear memory of being in the grocery store parking […]

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 […]

Jen Dodds: No, Holby City, children should not be used as interpreters for their deaf parents

November 13, 2013 by

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As everyone knows, last night’s Holby City (BBC1 – catch it here on BBC iPlayer) featured a deaf man and […]