I read an earlier Insight story – about a deaf person becoming estranged from their hearing sibling – with interest as it is almost exactly parallel to my story as an only hearing ...

I was only young teenager when a lodger that stayed at my parents house came into my room at night and sexually abused me. I was confused at the time, too ashamed to speak out to my parents about this ...

Brownlee, and I’m originally from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Last year I got married and moved to Enniskillen, which has been such a lovely new chapter in my life.

When I resumed my role in January 2025 as Project and Development Manager at Action Deafness, one of the projects I was entrusted with was the Oxford Deaf Festival. From the moment I learned about it, ...

The European Union of the Deaf (EUD) has shared three new documents about AI and  sign language: A guide with 15 rules for how AI should be made with sign languages. A contract to protect ...

For many UK-based Deaf viewers of the Nelson Mandela service today, something didn’t seem quite right about the sign language interpreter (scroll down for video) who stood to the side of the various ...

I went to a great conference today. It was riveting and I was hooked on pretty much every word. And then I got home and collapsed on the sofa. I’m not just tired, I’m shattered. I’ve had to turn my ...

The UK Government is being taken to court tomorrow, in a landmark legal case with the potential to strengthen the rights of Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users. The judicial review hearing over ...

My deafness is relatively invisible, although significant (moderate to severe hearing nerve loss). I have clear speech, I can lip-read well (except for in dark or in particularly noisy places), and I ...

See me for what I am and show some respect too Only then you will find that in visual mind I just might love you too.

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