The Conversation

How British Sign Language developed its own dialects

Adam Schembri receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Australian Research Council. Kearsy Cormier receives funding from Economic and Social Research Council, Arts and ...

Hospital staff ask deaf couple, 'What is a BSL interpreter?'

A health trust apologises to a deaf couple for the distress caused after they were left without a British Sign Language ...
Huffington Post UK

'First Dates Ireland' Airs First Same-Sex Date Carried Out Entirely In Sign Language

‘First Dates’ has the ability to warm even the coldest of hearts, but you’d have to be made of stone not to be moved by one match on the Irish version. An episode that aired earlier this week featured ...
London Evening Standard

Sign language law has brought significant benefits to deaf people – committee

A sign language law passed a decade ago has “brought significant benefits” to deaf people, a Holyrood committee has said, but MSPs are “concerned” about a lack of access for young people. The British ...
Cambridge Independent

Scottish comedian Ray Bradshaw heading back to Cambridge with new show, ‘CODA’

As a CODA (child of deaf adults) himself, Scottish stand-up Ray Bradshaw ’s latest comedy hour is fittingly titled CODA, and ...