Actress Marlee Matlin, who is deaf and the wife of a police officer, teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and advocacy group HEARD, on an American Sign Language video to ensure deaf people know their rights when interacting with law enforcement. (Also captioned).

When police officers don’t realize deaf and hard of

The National Centre for Swimming at Loughborough University recently welcomed swimmers aged nine to 20 for the 2014 National Deaf Swimming Championships.

Assistant Coach Martin Lee, an experienced multiple gold medal winning swimmer from the Deaflympics in New Zealand in 1989, explained what he has to do differently when coaching deaf

Former gymnastics champion, Mike Hawthorne, 53, ran the London Marathon to raise money for Sense the national deafblind charity. Mike, who was the first deaf person to win the National Gymnastics Championships in 1987, completed the 26.2 mile race in 6:50min.

“I was injured before marathon day so I had to walk for most of it. But it

The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has partnered with SignVideo to enable deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users to contact them conveniently in their own language.

SQA helps people realise their ambitions by providing a wide range of high quality, internationally recognised qualifications and associated services.

Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw was one of many who joined an online campaign last week to celebrate British Sign Language.

The BSL Celebration Week Campaign run by Exeter Deaf Academy, SignUp BSL and Deafinite Interpreters hoped to get as many people as possible filming themselves signing their name.

The organisations created a

When the CEO of Action on Hearing Loss, Paul Breckell, posted a video urgently asking the charity’s supporters to bridge a potential 2.5 million pound shortfall in the charity’s funds in February there was shock and then

Saturday 1 March saw teams from across the UK compete in the second British Deaf Futsal Cup 2014 and the first British Deaf Women Futsal Cup 2014.

Competitive swimmer Danielle Joyce set four world records at the recent Deaf International Short Course Championships in Rochester, New York.


Flying the flag for Great Britain Deaf Swimming (GBDSC), Danii proudly stood at the top of the podium no less than five times as she beat the worlds best deaf backstroke swimmer from

Cambridgeshire Hearing Help have produced a short film (11 minutes) about one person’s experience of hearing loss, which they are linking to a competition for local schools to produce their own short film on the subject.

This American sign language video (also subtitled) was shared by ADWAS (abused Deaf women’s advocacy services) and is first official public service announcement from the Engaging Men Project (EMP). The video was created during the first