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More than a third of councils in England are cutting educational support totalling £4m for deaf children, according to figures obtained by the National...

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...

Because humans use our eyes more than any other sense and because of our instinctive fear of the dark, most people think deafness must...

Deaf people are suffering from a reduction in the provision of specialist care and poor access to communication support and information when they are...

  97% of young people support the idea of a GCSE in British Sign Language (BSL). A petition (currently at 22,008 signatures) calls for BSL...

The South-Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has apologised to the family of Thomas Carson who had to tell him he was dying because...

Poundland is delighted to announce that one of their colleagues, Ridwan Ojetola, has won highly commended status in the Significant Achievement Award category at the...

While on a visit to Israel, Prince William (second heir to the throne following Queen Elizabeth II’s reign) spoke fondly of his deaf great grandmother, Princess Alice, and the life she led.

Despite the petition for British Sign Language (BSL) to be on the National Curriculum not reaching the normal threshold to be considered for debate...

Concentration fatigue, or tiredness is a thing! Simply, it’s when you have to concentrate hard on listening, lipreading or signing for a long period of time, and it tires you out. It’s most common in deaf people as we use our eyes more than our other senses, as they’re also our ears.