Hi everyone, I’m Samera, and I want to share my journey of learning British Sign Language (BSL) — as well as an exciting ...

I didn’t realise I was doing it at the time. In my mind, I felt I was protecting them by always being involved. I was worried that the world would be cruel to them and I wanted to soften ...

I was diagnosed with progressive hearing loss when I was 6 years old in school. I had passed my newborn hearing screening tests, but when I got to school, I always remember struggling to fully ...

I saw you watching me as I signed to a friend today. I hadn’t seen my friend for a while, so we were catching up excitedly in the store you were also in with your parent.

Firstly, a disclaimer. Whilst I’m two years into my BA Deaf Studies after working in TV for two years, this article is not from a Deaf perspective. There are a lot of resources and commentaries on ...

Valentine’s Day is all about romance: whispered sweet nothings, candlelit dinners, and long conversations that stretch into the night. For me—a deaf cochlear ...

In the mid 1980s I signed a publishing contract with Book Publisher A for my autobiography about deafness, which I titled The Dragonfly. It had a subtitle with the word ‘deaf’ in it somewhere so it ...

For many deaf people – me included – experiencing hate crime doesn’t start with violence. It starts with mockery. It can start as simple as someone watching your hands or your actions instead of your ...

I didn’t expect my Grandad’s funeral to be the place where this realisation hit me. Funerals are meant to bring clarity aren’t they? They are supposed to be the end of a chapter. Instead, I sat there ...

The Lifeline episode announcing the charity’s selection aired on Sunday, 25 January, and focused on how SignHealth improve the health and wellbeing of all deaf people. It highlighted the ongoing ...

If it wasn’t for my niece taking a seasonal job as a BSL ranger at Santa’s Lapland, it’s very unlikely I would have known such things existed. And in actual fact, the BSL provision hasn’t really been ...

When I read Sally Austen’s article on The Limping Chicken about deaf mental health services, I found myself nodding along. She’s absolutely right: the system we have doesn’t make sense. In some places ...