First and foremost, Hello and Happy New Year 2026 to everyone! I’m Paola, hearing mum to Everly, my gorgeous 4-year-old Deaf daughter. Everly was born profoundly deaf and her first language is BSL ...
When I read Sally Austen’s article on The Limping Chicken about deaf mental health services, I found myself nodding along. She’s absolutely right: the system we have doesn’t make sense. In some places ...
It’s December — the season of advent calendars, “Elf on the Shelf” cheekiness and the mad scramble to book Santa visits before Christmas. For many families, a trip to see Santa or to watch a festive ...
Two weeks ago, I attended a roundtable in London organised by GN Hearing (who make hearing aids under the Resound, Danalogic and Beltone brands) discussing a new technology called Auracast, which is ...
Julie and Brad from Down the Tubes Productions share their individual guides to self-advocacy! (BSL)
I have pulled no punches. I have written the best advocacy tips that I have used throughout the years in a list – in no particular order. If you are looking for soft language and placating ...
Hi everyone, I’m Kylie and I’m an Early Years Educator based in Cambridgeshire. I founded Badge Religion – a range of BSL badges – earlier this year. My connection to deafness is through my daughter, ...
My name is Richard D France and I’m originally from Sheffield. I was born profoundly Deaf and use both signed and spoken languages. I work as the Deaf Support Coordinator at City Lit in London and in ...
I grew up in a hearing world that didn’t know how to listen. Words filled every space, but silence filled me. As a Deaf child in a hearing family, I learned early on that communication wasn’t about ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new artwork by Cathy Mager called Hand in Hand was launched in the reception area of two deaf schools in Bristol yesterday, featuring a pair of towering trees etched with British Sign Language. Hand ...
My husband and I are hearing parents to our Deaf daughter Everly. Our daughter has BSL as first language. This means, as many of you know, that she is unable to access events due to lack of BSL ...
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