Blank Canvas Voyage
This month we have been lucky enough to catch up with Thomas Giddens and Telma Louro. It was not easy as they have been...
Audism
Audism.
That word has been around for a while, but I don’t feel like people really know what it means.
The word was coined in 1975...
Opening the door to new horizons
When Nicolas Hall asked his friend Richard Clowes to help him find a voluntary work trip suitable for deaf people they realised there was...
The tables were turned
The emotional realisation of what life is like for her deaf daughter in a ‘hearing’ world is the subject of this powerful and moving...
Australian woman loses High Court Deaf juror battle
A Queensland woman has lost a High Court battle to become the first deaf juror in Australia.
Gaye Lyons, who can lip-read but requires an...
A giant stride towards sign language recognition in Malta
A big step towards official recognition of sign language in Malta was taken in March when the Maltese Sign Language Recognition Bill was presented...
Auslan National Curriculum roll out
The first national curriculum for Auslan (Australian Sign Language), will soon be rolled out in schools across Australia, in a move being described as...
Swiss deaf protest against emergency sirens
The Swiss Federation for the Deaf staged protests in four cities in Switzerland this week as their government carried out the annual testing of...
Mandy Harvey – deaf singer got dazzled in “America’s Got Talent”
A phenomenal success for Mandy Harvey who became deaf in 10 years ago, aged 18, from a connective-tissue disorder where she has got ill,...
Strictly Nyle DiMarco
British Deaf News profiles the man of the moment, Nyle DiMarco, an icon and role model to a whole generation of Deaf people after...
