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Deaf Services Lanarkshire has secured the right to own and manage Shawhead Community Centre in Coatbridge following a successful Community Asset Transfer (CAT) application. The organisation, which ...
Her win marked a turning point in UK media, reshaping how Deaf culture and British Sign Language (BSL) are represented. This year’s Deaf Awareness Week (5–11 May 2025) themed, Beyond Silence, focussed ...
More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap ...
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When I began my role as a university equality, diversity and inclusion consultant, I had only a surface-level understanding of British Sign Language (BSL) and the experiences of BSL users. I knew ...
Earlier this year, 400 new environmental science terms were approved in British Sign Language (BSL) following sign creation workshops at the university’s Scottish Sensory Centre. “Creating BSL ...
This is evidence of the academic, emotional and linguistic benefits of sign language. "It's important for d/Deaf children to be exposed to BSL and see their peers, teachers and parents using it.
Creating British sign language (BSL) signs for abstract climate concepts is very different from tangible objects like animals, but the process is equally fascinating. While a rabbit sign might ...
It has partnered with Signapse to add an AI-generated in-video British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter to video content CaptionHub has partnered with sign language AI company, Signapse ...
Some other sign languages, such as British Sign Language, use two hands for one ... or are new to their conversation partner. Black ASL is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL).
Credit: PA Plans to introduce a British Sign Language (BSL) GCSE have been scrapped due to "practical challenges". Qualifications Wales announced today (3 October) that they have taken the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There has been some great integration of British Sign Language (BSL) into theatre productions recently, not ...