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Some students with hearing difficulties feel lonely and excluded from daily campus life.
Truly fostering accessible educational opportunities for deaf students can only happen with ongoing political and financial support.
It is important that Deaf actors play Deaf characters in TV and film, so that audiences engage with authentic depictions of disability.
Dip hop artists move across the stage, hands flying through the air, as audiences pulse to the rhythm of a blasting bass beat.
Henry Lawson said deafness was ‘in a great measure responsible for my writing’. Wright said hers was ‘part of the conditions I live under’. Their disability was inherent to their creativity.
This is an opportunity for Deaf people to finally be properly educated in a language they understand.
Making South African Sign Language official is more symbolic than useful in the lives of a very marginalised community.
Capturing the experiences of students who are deaf or hard of hearing is important so schools can address fatigue related to listening and communicating efforts.
Researchers are exploring different ways to improve how cochlear implant users perceive speech and music in noisy environments.
A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown
Deaf people from different parts of the world can have different accents, whether they speak, sign or both.
It’s refreshing to see disabled actors in disabled roles, but can’t the academy acknowledge films that highlight disability without falling into stereotypical representations?
Most indigenous signed languages in Africa today are marginalised, dominated and suppressed by foreign signed languages.
Those with disaster experience said they hadn’t received proper warnings, which led to confusion, helplessness and panic. There was a sense that ‘we always come last’.
While the pandemic has had devastating consequences for imprisoned people, many of their experiences were already characterised by pain and deprivation
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.
Top contributors
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Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The Open University
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Darlithydd mewn Polisi Cymdeithasol (Cyfrwng Cymraeg)/ Lecturer in Social Policy (Welsh medium), Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in the History of the British Empire, University of Sheffield
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Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Sign Linguistics, UCL Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, UCL
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Lecturer South African Sign Language, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior lecturer, Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Religion, University of Dayton
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Professor of Deaf Education, University of Tennessee
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Reader in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
