I am horrified that yet again our government is taking another brutal bashing at Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people. I remember in 2012 the Graeae gang and many of our cohort were feeling ...

As someone who adores design related television shows, I recently enjoyed LumoTV’s brand new show, DeSign where a team of builders, led by deaf architect Chris Laing, transformed the home of a ...

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A new Ofcom study has found a video relay service that connects deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users to the emergency services is successfully saving lives. Ofcom rules, introduced in 2022, ...

Across further education, Deaf students are showing up with ambition, talent, and a desire to succeed. But too often, the support around them isn’t quite keeping up. In colleges across the UK, ...

This Can’t Be It It wasn’t one thing — not a single moment or explosive incident — that made me decide I needed a change. It was more like the slow realisation that I was constantly being ...

The British Deaf Association has announced the winner of its third annual British Sign Language (BSL) Poet Laureate competition. The winner is Ishtiaq ...

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Hearing people, eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. Statistics show that five in six people are hearing. That’s a whopping 50 million people in the UK, and nearly 6 billion ...

The second BUP festival took place at the end of April, this time held at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent. The event was sign-language led with deaf children and adults attending from across the ...

It’s a week since I watched Rose Ayling Ellis present her documentary; Old Hands, New Tricks, and I’m still feeling the impact. I have never felt more seen than when Rose said BSL is for everyone.

A damning new report released today by leading charities RNID and SignHealth has revealed serious and widespread healthcare failings affecting over 6 million adults in England who are deaf or have ...