Swim England and UK Deaf Sport begin to make swimming more accessible
Swim England and UK Deaf Sport have teamed up to make swimming more accessible for deaf participants. The start of a swimming race can be challenging for deaf athletes: particularly those who are unable to wear hearing aids or cochlear implants in the water.
Deafrave NYE Party
After my first time at Deafrave, (Deaf Rave 2019) I could not wait to go again. After years of reading and writing about the Deaf community, that was the first time I had seen it face to face.
YouTube is dropping Community Captions
"So YouTube has basically said f*** you to disabled creators and viewers."
This is what Deaf activist Rikki...
Man becomes first deaf juror in English court
Matthew Johnston from London is believed to be the first profoundly deaf person to sit on a jury in a crown court in England...
How do D/deaf people experience music?
‘How can D/deaf people hear music’… ‘D/deaf people must really miss music’…
These questions and phrases are commonly asked and is a common myth I’d like to dispel in this blog.
Any D/deaf person, regardless of their level of hearing loss can experience or ‘hear’ music, they might just access it differently to the way hearing people do.
