The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.
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Navigating systems which are hostile to deaf people leaves Ángela and her partner Héctor in impossible situations.
This is the first time such results have been achieved in both children and adult patients born with a specific type of congenital deafness.
People often look at me strangely when I tell them that one of my best every festival experiences was in a portaloo.
By exploiting their victim’s disability, perpetrators increase their power and coercive control, thereby intensifying the abuse.
To create a more accessible society, we need to increase awareness about diverse perspectives and lived experiences communicating, and learn about what types of barriers exist.
Some students with hearing difficulties feel lonely and excluded from daily campus life.
Truly fostering accessible educational opportunities for deaf students can only happen with ongoing political and financial support.
It is important that Deaf actors play Deaf characters in TV and film, so that audiences engage with authentic depictions of disability.
Dip hop artists move across the stage, hands flying through the air, as audiences pulse to the rhythm of a blasting bass beat.
Henry Lawson said deafness was ‘in a great measure responsible for my writing’. Wright said hers was ‘part of the conditions I live under’. Their disability was inherent to their creativity.
This is an opportunity for Deaf people to finally be properly educated in a language they understand.
Making South African Sign Language official is more symbolic than useful in the lives of a very marginalised community.
Capturing the experiences of students who are deaf or hard of hearing is important so schools can address fatigue related to listening and communicating efforts.
Researchers are exploring different ways to improve how cochlear implant users perceive speech and music in noisy environments.
A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown
Deaf people from different parts of the world can have different accents, whether they speak, sign or both.
It’s refreshing to see disabled actors in disabled roles, but can’t the academy acknowledge films that highlight disability without falling into stereotypical representations?
Most indigenous signed languages in Africa today are marginalised, dominated and suppressed by foreign signed languages.
Those with disaster experience said they hadn’t received proper warnings, which led to confusion, helplessness and panic. There was a sense that ‘we always come last’.
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Associate Professor, BSL and Deaf Studies, York St John University
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Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University
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Senior lecturer, Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham
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Darlithydd mewn Polisi Cymdeithasol (Cyfrwng Cymraeg)/ Lecturer in Social Policy (Welsh medium), Bangor University
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Associate professor, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in the History of the British Empire, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer South African Sign Language, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor and Founder of the Wits Centre for Deaf Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ph.D. Candidate in Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University
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Lecturer in Deafness, Cognition and Language, UCL
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Heriot-Watt University
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Research Training and Development Officer, University of South Africa
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Reader in Sign Linguistics, UCL Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, UCL