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Read their lips: Seb Coe accepts Lifetime Achievement award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year, calls someone a “bastard”

December 17, 2012 by

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It’s been a great year for Seb Coe, with London 2012 a massive success, being tipped to become the next […]

William Mager: Billy 2.0 – One week after the operation

November 23, 2012 by

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A week after my operation I went back to the hospital. They took the dressings off, did an X-ray and […]

William Mager: Billy 2.0 – Failing Ugly

November 13, 2012 by

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So, I’ve had the operation, and I feel pretty good, considering. I’m trying to stick to my policy of full […]

PJ Gribbin: Lip-Reading. A Subtle and Delicate Skill

November 6, 2012 by

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It’s now getting on for thirty years since I was head-butted by a border collie; she had a hard forehead […]

William Mager: Starting a journey of known unknowns

October 8, 2012 by

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Donald Rumsfeld once said: There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; […]

Cathy Heffernan: Report from DCAL’s Deaf Children’s Development Conference

October 3, 2012 by

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On the face of it, lipreading someone and reading a book are two wholly separate skills. But research suggests Deaf […]

Haley Sadler: Beating the bullies

March 23, 2012 by

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“Oh you’re deaf?! Can. You. Hear. Me. Now?” These are the words of a guy I recently met in a […]

Deaf news: NHS consultant – “Deafness might damage your health”

March 22, 2012 by

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An NHS consultant, whose daughter is deaf, has co-written an article calling for more interpreters to be made available for […]

The Secret Deafie: When I played the ‘deaf card’ – in a prime mugging spot

March 12, 2012 by

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The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Our fifth contributor tells us about how […]

Ian Noon: Why I spent my Sunday telling parents of deaf children all about my love life

March 9, 2012 by

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It was the question I had been dreading: “Perhaps our visitors could tell us a bit about their experiences with […]