Departure Lounge Festival returns to Derby Theatre this year with a growing focus on deaf access, BSL interpretation and captioning. I spoke to Executive Producer Jen Sullivan about how the ...

A Deaf campaigner is calling for urgent changes to emergency service communication support after her own experience revealed what she describes as a critical gap in accessibility for British Sign ...

Following Rebecca’s great article on Lipreading, as a lifelong lipreader I can fully relate to things like beards, facemasks, chewing gum, ciggies, tongue studs and dental braces getting in ...

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 ...

Every September, thousands of Deaf students return to colleges, universities, apprenticeships, and training courses across the UK. And every September, the quality of support varies massively. Some ...

As a deaf theatre-goer, there are some shows that have always existed on the edge of my understanding. Little Shop of Horrors was one of them. I vaguely remembered seeing the 1986 film as a child, but ...

Trigger warning: This blog contains discussion of pregnancy loss, premature birth, grief, medical trauma, and lack of communication support during maternity care. I recently watched Open Your Eyes: ...

Any new event within the Deaf community that is genuinely enjoyed tends to become a fixture in the yearly calendar. Much like DSPY (Deaf Sports Personality of the Year), Deaffest, and more recently ...

There’s something I’ve been wanting to say for a long time as a deaf BSL user who is also able to speak. I’m bilingual. I switch between British Sign Language and spoken English every single day. I ...

Two hundred years after opening its doors in Exeter as England’s first Deaf school, the Deaf Academy marked a major milestone this month with a royal visit, celebrations led by Deaf young people and a ...