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For the past nine years, I’ve worked as a Health Improvement Specialist for the Deaf Community under the Equality and Human Rights Department at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. My job is to improve ...

Stepping into the world of work and study simultaneously can be hard for anyone. You’re forced to grow from a school student to a working adult overnight….but still have to go back to the classroom ...

Hello, I’m Alison Claire France (née Hillier, previously Swannack), a freelance artist and facilitator based in East Sussex, England. I was born in Australia, where my parents moved after their ...

I grew up in a hearing world that didn’t know how to listen. Words filled every space, but silence filled me. As a Deaf child in a hearing family, I learned early on that communication wasn’t about ...

It’s a dull, overcast and gloomy October morning so my thoughts – naturally – are drifting back to my summer holiday in the Menorcan sunshine. If you’ve not been to the island of Menorca in the month ...

Without giving my age away, let’s just say I do have a pension! I am a deaf, sign language user and I grew up in an oral hearing family. I was the only child, and the first ever deaf person in the ...

The Limping Chicken is the world's most popular Deaf blog, and is edited by Deaf writer and photographer Charlie Swinbourne. Our posts represent the opinions of blog authors, they do not represent the ...

The British Deaf Association (BDA) has endorsed a new programme called The School of Signs, developed by Signature to bring British Sign Language (BSL) into primary schools across the UK, free of ...

This is a really exciting moment for you Eloise! How are you feeling right now, to have Barrier(s) reach the stage as a touring production? Thank you! I am so thrilled that Barrier(s) gets to tour and ...

A. “I am tired and frustrated by the lack of Deaf Awareness in the office, and I’ve started working at home to avoid it.” When I answered this question in my recent supervision, it made me realise how ...

Limping Chicken are sharing a range of lay summaries for research by DCAL (Deafness Cognition and Language Centre), here is the first post: Robert Adam explains how deaf people often write or ...