My name is Lian, and I was born in Bristol, England, to parents who moved here from China before I came into the world. Growing up, I always felt like I had two homes: the leafy streets of ...

Signature, the UK’s leading awarding body for deaf communication and language qualifications, has announced the release of five new episodes to its free ‘School of Signs’ programme, now used in ...

Valentine’s Day is all about romance: whispered sweet nothings, candlelit dinners, and long conversations that stretch into the night. For me—a deaf cochlear implant user—those “whispered” moments ...

To read the updated version of this article, with new illustrations and BSL translation, click here. Hearing people, eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. Of course, the term ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 2022 I stumbled upon upon the ever popular Queer Eye series on Netflix. At that time I was in the middle of moving house and found that the series was the perfect antidote to stress and I soon ...

Matt Dixon is the only hearing person in his family. His parents, along with his brother Simon and sister Rebecca are deaf. Being the only hearing person in the family, Matt had been used to ...

My name is Mariella Satow, I am 18 years old and I have British-American citizenship. I am hearing and have been studying American Sign Language (ASL) for two years. My interest in sign language began ...

Firstly, a disclaimer. Whilst I’m two years into my BA Deaf Studies after working in TV for two years, this article is not from a Deaf perspective. There are a lot of resources and commentaries on ...

Sophie Kang, Sales and Marketing Manager at Sign Solutions, says AI has the potential to help BSL signers, but only if it’s developed with their input In April, the British Deaf Association (BDA) ...

In the mid 1980s I signed a publishing contract with Book Publisher A for my autobiography about deafness, which I titled The Dragonfly. It had a subtitle with the word ‘deaf’ in it somewhere so it ...