This is great. Vital life-saving skills made accessible in British Sign Language. They have been created by British Red Cross and it is presented by Fifi Garfield. Kudos to British Red Cross for taking this initiative at their own expense and despite the fact that they are volunteer-led organistation. It is nice to see someone [...]

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Ian Bruce

Brian Lamb is the executive director of advocacy and policy at the RNID and the author of NCVO’s Good Campaigns Guide, which maps out effective tools to increase the quality and the evaluation of campaigning. Within RNID, Brian has had overall responsibility for driving forward the work on awareness of [...]

A thought struck me last night. Ow!
Recently, there was a public event in which I have been badgering the organisers for some time to provide an BSL (British Sign Language) interpreter. It was a job recruitment/open day for a new hotel opening and I have been telling my clients to go and attend.
Later, it transpired [...]

Inspired by recent GOD post:
Excerpt from: RNId Imagine a world without sound
I used to work in a school with hard of hearing children. We had one girl who came from a family of five. Both her parents were profoundly deaf, as she was. She had a younger brother who was severely deaf and an older [...]

I would like to recount my experience during my visit to Damacus, Syria, when I attended my good friend’s brother wedding.
Having faced the death-defying car rides and me mistaking the suspect Arab’s bidet plumbing for a muezzin’s call for prayer at 2am, the capital still captivated me. It was the most violent jerk from one [...]