On 28th April 2026 in Belfast, something remarkable happened on the front steps of Stormont. The deaf community travelled in droves to Northern Ireland’s Parliament Buildings to witness a historic ...
British Sign Language interpreter, I assumed the hardest part would be the languages and all their intricacies. Turns out, it’s not the languages ...
I stumbled upon a blog I wrote back in 2017 when my son had just finished his first year of nursery school. He was four years old at the time and I was bracing myself for the next however many years ...
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 ...
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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Two hundred years after opening its doors in Exeter as England’s first Deaf school, the Deaf Academy marked a major milestone this month with a royal visit, celebrations led by Deaf young people and a ...
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 ...