Departure Lounge Festival returns to Derby Theatre this year with a growing focus on deaf access, BSL interpretation and captioning. I spoke to Executive Producer Jen Sullivan about how the ...

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A Deaf campaigner is calling for urgent changes to emergency service communication support after her own experience revealed what she describes as a critical gap in accessibility for British Sign ...

Following Rebecca’s great article on Lipreading, as a lifelong lipreader I can fully relate to things like beards, facemasks, chewing gum, ciggies, tongue studs and dental braces getting in ...

I’m not one for scary movies. Honestly I’m not. I freaked out after watching Paranormal Activity and was haunted by The Others for days after I’d watched it. I can’t watch gory series’ like The ...

Welcome to The Limping Chicken, the UK’s independently-run deaf culture and news site. Since 2012, we’ve published writing by Deaf people across the UK and the world, laying eggs every week, clocking ...

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 ...

Mike Gulliver wrote recently about the need for academics and researchers to consult more closely with the deaf community on projects concerning them. As a freelance community researcher working with ...

On Sunday, Derrick Coleman became the first deaf American Footballer to win the SuperBowl. Let’s take a look at him and some other well known (and some not so well known) deaf sports people who, in ...

A Bill to recognise British Sign Language (BSL) as an official language moved one step closer to becoming law on […] ...