Hi, my name is Ember and I live near Frome in Somerset. I gradually became deaf through my childhood and I’m now severe/profoundly deaf. Spoken English is my first language and BSL is my second. I ...

There has been encouraging news for the Deafblind community in the UK, with the government announcing new funding aimed at increasing the number of specialist interpreters available for Deafblind ...

British Sign Language interpreter, I assumed the hardest part would be the languages and all their intricacies. Turns out, it’s not the languages ...

On 28th April 2026 in Belfast, something remarkable happened on the front steps of Stormont. The deaf community travelled in droves to Northern Ireland’s Parliament Buildings to witness a historic ...

Let’s Sign is a series of publications that once began life as DeafBooks. Established by Cath Smith over 23 years ago, the books, posters and flashcards from the Let’s Sign BSL series have all been ...

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 ...

I’m not one for scary movies. Honestly I’m not. I freaked out after watching Paranormal Activity and was haunted by The Others for days after I’d watched it. I can’t watch gory series’ like The ...

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 ...

Mike Gulliver wrote recently about the need for academics and researchers to consult more closely with the deaf community on projects concerning them. As a freelance community researcher working with ...

Laura at Mango Wisdom Wellness is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) who now lives in Goa, India where she has spent the last decade combining her passions for yoga, Ayurveda, wellbeing and community ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Derrick Coleman became the first deaf American Footballer to win the SuperBowl. Let’s take a look at him and some other well known (and some not so well known) deaf sports people who, in ...