An animated film by award-winning artist Martin Pickles entitled “I had no idea” featuring the undergraduate Natasha talking about her experience of being disabled in the workplace can be found at www.leonardcheshire.org/change100.

Talented disabled students from

Seventeen-year-old Daniil Frants and his buddies hope to help the hard-of-hearing engage in naturally flowing conversations.

It’s a common misconception that most hearing-impaired people can easily read lips. But while many are indeed practiced lip readers, only 30 to 40 percent of English can be understood through watching the mouth.

The Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland has given �5,000 to Great Britain’s women’s deaf football team to enable them to take part in the Deaf World Cup in Italy.

The team’s campaign will cost �20,000 and a

The Scottish Government has today announced plans to recruit ten Deaf BSL users to the British Sign Language (BSL) National Advisory Group (NAG), which will advise Scottish Ministers on what should be included in the first BSL National Plan.

Two places on the group will

To commemorate their 175th birthday, the Royal Association for Deaf People (RAD), is hosting the RAD 175 Birthday Honours gala awards ceremony. All that is great about Deaf history, language and culture will be celebrated on this memorable occasion.

The shortlisted

Santander has signed an agreement with SignVideo to launch a Video Relay Service for the British Sign Language community.

The service is available for all account servicing, supporting customers with many of their day to

A combination of new visual and touch techniques could enhance the experience of deaf musicians, researchers say.

“Traditional waveform representations are unable to truly describe what music actually sounds like. There are much more subtle characteristics of sound that may be better represented visually, for example, by using simple

A video of a “moving and beautiful” ceremony of a deaf couple who wed in Limerick city last weekend is touching the hearts of thousands of people online.

The wedding of Tara Long, 26, from Kileely in Limerick, and Timmy Doona, from Killorglin in Kerry, who are both deaf, left the congregation in tears of joy in St John’s Cathedral in

The revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s musical ”Spring Awakening” opened this week at the Brooks-Atkinson Theatre where nearly the entire company, composed of more than 20 performers, both deaf and hearing, celebrated a Broadway debut.

This video is courtesy of TheaterMania, who caught up with Austin P. McKenzie and Sandra

The British Deaf Association (BDA) is calling for people across the country to raise awareness of its 125 Anniversary by taking part in its #WheelsUp4BSL campaign.

Following the charity’s recent record attempt for the most people performing simultaneous bicycle wheelies, BDA is calling for people across the country to attempt their