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Teaching deaf babies sign language improves the success of cochlear implants – and also safeguards their long-term physical and mental health.
Audiologists recommend enhanced communication strategies in the time of coronavirus to help the nearly 60 million Americans living with hearing loss in one or both ears.
Deaf Christians can often feel excluded in churches. But the Christian contemplative tradition that celebrates silence and considers it a form of prayer can bring a new understanding of faith.
Limited contact between the first British Sign Language communities created dialects that are still in use today.
The latest proposed cuts to deaf education services just fuel the deaf community’s mistrust of the ‘hearing’ authorities that wield the axe.
Three Oscar-nominated films prominently featured characters using sign languages. It’s an important contribution to recognising Deaf culture and identity.
A proposed tweak to the copyright laws should make it easier to reversion protected works for people with disabilities.
This Masters degree sets a precedent in South Africa and gives universities that want to be truly inclusive a lot to think about.
A recent Australian high court case has highlighted a problem that also exists in UK and Ireland.
Think it’s stressful visiting a police station? Try doing it when you can’t hear.
Top contributors
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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