Hi everyone, my name is Andie Vowles and I am based in the North West of England. I am profoundly Deaf from birth and use British Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language. Growing up, I was ...

For many deaf people – me included – experiencing hate crime doesn’t start with violence. It starts with mockery. It can start as simple as someone watching your hands or your actions ...

I didn’t expect my Grandad’s funeral to be the place where this realisation hit me. Funerals are meant to bring clarity aren’t they? They are supposed to be the end of a chapter.

SignHealth has been selected as a BBC Lifeline charity of the month. Watch in BSL below: The Lifeline episode announcing the charity’s selection aired on Sunday, 25 January, and focused on ...

To read the updated version of this article, with new illustrations and BSL translation, click here. Hearing people, eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. Of course, the term ...

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 ...

At the end of October, my family and I took a trip to the Warner Bros. Studios London to see the making of Harry Potter. It was a celebratory trip, marking our wedding anniversary and our children ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 16 members of the UK Government’s British Sign Language (BSL) Advisory Board, which was set up following the passing of the BSL Act last year, have been announced at the British Deaf Association’s ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Unlike what many BSL teachers and students seem to think, linguists objectively study and describe how language actually works, not how people think it ...

For us deaf people, Christmas can mean feeling left out, even as everyone around us seems to be having a wonderful time. Christmas dinner, carol singing, the King’s speech on telly, young children, ...