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Meet: Lesley Weatherson, award-winning lipspeaker!
Nearly all of us know what a sign language interpreter is, but how many of us have ever tried using a lipspeaker? We spoke to Lesley Weatherson from Lipspeaker UK (who also support this site!) to find...
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Meet: Bethany Eason, the deaf teenager who was interviewed on Channel 4 News...
Meet Bethany Eason: she’s 15 years old and yesterday she appeared on Channel 4 News to tell the world in no uncertain terms why they should listen to the views of deaf young people, and how their lives...
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Deaf News: Action on Hearing Loss team up with DCAL to call for better...
The charity Action on Hearing Loss and University College London’s Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre are urging NHS England to substantially improve the quality of life experienced by...
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Alison Bryan: How to get a BSL Act onto the government agenda
This article was first published on Grumpy Old Deafies here: www.grumpyoldeafies.com and is republished here under a Creative Commons licence and by by kind permission of the author. Recently, I posted...
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Deaf News: MPs rush to put BSL into the top 15 Early Day Motions of the year
A rush of 12 MPs signing an EDM (Early Day Motion) this week to promote the rights of sign language users has pushed the number of MPs signatures up to 122 and now makes EDM 1167 the 15th best...
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Join: The campaign group Deaf People against Welfare Cuts
A new Facebook group has been set up called Deaf People against Welfare Cuts. It’s a campaign group looking to help deaf people argue against the cuts that are directly affecting their lives. We asked...
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Deaf News: Disabled Student Allowance caps stop deaf students getting right...
Present caps on the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) mean that Deaf, hard of hearing and disabled students are not receiving the support they need, according to a recent report. The Snowdon Trust, a...
View ArticleThe Secret Deafie – Losing sight, gaining insight
The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. In this post, first published on this site in March 2012, a writer tells us about living with Usher Syndrome. When I was...
View ArticleIan Noon: Tell your MP to turn up for the debate on deaf children’s education
After 18 months of campaigning and 50,000+ petition signatures, MPs have agreed that concerns over cuts to funding to support for deaf children are so serious that Parliament should debate them....
View ArticleDonna Williams: How it feels to be ‘spitting the dummy’!
Well. What a fortnight. I feel like I’m about to come out. I’m going to come out as… an admin of the ‘Spit the Dummy and campaign for BSL Act!’ group over on Facebook. Yes I am one of the six, soon...
View ArticleDeaf news in BSL from Remark: Deaf Village Ireland | Japanese earthquake |...
Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! Irish Deaf village opens its doors Deaf Village Ireland is home to a number of Deaf...
View ArticleMeet: The Chair of the United Kingdom Deaf Students’ Union, Shauna Flannigan
United Kingdom Deaf Students Union – UKDSU for short – is hosting their first ever event within the UK! Asher Woodman-Worrell interviewed the Chair of UKDSU, Shauna Flannigan to learn more about the...
View ArticleDeaf News: Association of Sign Language Interpreters denies being consulted...
ASLI, the Association of Sign Language Interpreters, has released a statement denying that the organisation was consulted about recent changes to Access to Work – which mean many deaf people have to...
View ArticleDeaf News: Researchers find that regional variations of BSL are in decline
British Sign Language is a rich, naturally evolving language, where the signs you use can vary according to where you live and where you went to school. Just like in English, where you may call a bread...
View ArticleTamsin Coates: What the government’s Special Educational Needs changes mean...
The government has put in place some new ‘reforms’ – changes to current practice, which are directly within the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) area. These will potentially affect...
View ArticleUK Sport doubles funding for Winter Olympic and Paralympic athletes to £31...
The news last week that UK Sport are doubling the funding that Winter Olympic and Paralympic athletes get to £31 million has come as a bitter blow to Deaflympic athletes who still receive no funding at...
View ArticlePenny Batchelor: Why is it only the Green Party who are after the Deaf and...
The manifestoes are out, the politicians’ gloves are off and there’s just over a week to go until polling day. […]
View ArticleJemma Buckley: Make sure you watch the BDA’s film ‘Power In Our Hands’ in...
For the past four years the British Deaf Association have been working to bring their extensive film and video collection […]
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