The Kingdon review of children’s hearing services has been released today, revealing that over 300 deaf children were harmed due to errors in pediatric audiology, and making a number of ...

For the past nine years, I’ve worked as a Health Improvement Specialist for the Deaf Community under the Equality and Human Rights Department at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. My job is to improve ...

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My name is George Chapman and I became Deaf at the age of 2. I wear hearing aids and when I take my hearing aids out I cant hear anything. I use British Sign Language and a bit of SSE (signed ...

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For many UK-based Deaf viewers of the Nelson Mandela service today, something didn’t seem quite right about the sign language interpreter (scroll down for video) who stood to the side of the various ...

Welcome to The Limping Chicken, the UK’s independently-run deaf culture and news site. Since 2012, we’ve published writing by Deaf people across the UK and the world, laying eggs every week, clocking ...

Please scroll down for BSL videos and details of a BSL chat via Zoom on working remotely. New to communicating remotely? Want to know more? I asked deaf friends, interpreters, and speech to text ...

Without giving my age away, let’s just say I do have a pension! I am a deaf, sign language user and I grew up in an oral hearing family. I was the only child, and the first ever deaf person in the ...

I went to a great conference today. It was riveting and I was hooked on pretty much every word. And then I got home and collapsed on the sofa. I’m not just tired, I’m shattered. I’ve had to turn my ...

Several deaf organisations have released information signposting deaf people to accessible specialist support services following videos and stories released on social media over the last few days ...

It’s a dull, overcast and gloomy October morning so my thoughts – naturally – are drifting back to my summer holiday in the Menorcan sunshine. If you’ve not been to the island of Menorca in the month ...