In a landmark event held during Deaf Awareness Week 2025, leaders from politics, education, and the Deaf community gathered in the heart of Westminster to celebrate British Sign Language (BSL), ...

When an old school friend, Martine Monksfield, shared a video online about being unexpectedly visited by Jehovah’s Witnesses, she received a flurry of inbox messages from deaf people who had ...

Sophie Kang, Sales and Marketing Manager at Sign Solutions, says AI has the potential to help BSL signers, but only if it’s developed with their input In April, the British Deaf Association (BDA) ...

A major new effort is underway at the University of East Anglia to help deaf children born to hearing parents gain stronger language skills from the very start. Researchers are exploring how ...

July in Leeds, click here. I do love a good Deaf club night. Before I’ve even taken off my coat – in fact, often before ...

I am horrified that yet again our government is taking another brutal bashing at Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people. I remember in 2012 the Graeae gang and many of our cohort were feeling ...

The Limping Chicken is the world's most popular Deaf blog, and is edited by Deaf journalist, screenwriter and director Charlie Swinbourne. Our posts represent the opinions of blog authors, they do not ...

A damning new report released today by leading charities RNID and SignHealth has revealed serious and widespread healthcare failings affecting over 6 million adults in England who are deaf or have ...

Reunion (watch it on BBC iPlayer here) is a four-part BBC thriller is about a deaf man called Brennan, played by Matthew Gurney, who’s just come out of prison after ten years for murder hellbent on ...

As a Deaf person, I know first-hand how frustrating the job search can be. So many job sites aren’t built with us in mind – no BSL, no visual-friendly layouts, and no clue about accessibility. It ...

The brand-new BBC revenge thriller Reunion, written by William Mager, is now available in full on BBC iPlayer. The first episode is a beautifully written, acted and directed piece of drama, ...

Watch Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old hands, New Tricks at 9pm on BBC1 on Wednesday. On Wednesday the BBC will broadcast Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old hands, New Tricks, a two-part documentary in which Rose ...