'I taught my driving instructor sign language to help me pass test'

Sarah-Jade Walker was running a British Sign Language (BSL) "bootcamp" in North Yorkshire which driving instructor Adele ...
Wired

This Startup Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf

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 with an ...

'Small changes make our lives so much easier' – Belfast man hopes new initiative to get public learning sign language will make a difference

Anthony Sinclair, who has been profoundly deaf since birth, launched the initiative after receiving funding from a council programme ...
Decider

Who is Daryl on ‘The Great British Baking Show’? Meet Tasha’s BSL Interpreter

The Great British Baking Show is breaking barriers this season with its first ever deaf contestant. 27-year-old Tasha Stones is a former ski instructor and current participation officer who enjoys ...
The Conversation

How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate change terms

Audrey Cameron works for the University of Edinburgh, and we received funding from the Royal Society to develop new environmental science signs. Creating British sign language (BSL) signs for abstract ...
New Scientist

Why everyone should learn some sign language

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...