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 legislation recognises and promotes both British sign language and Irish sign language and places duties on public bodies to take reasonable steps to ensure that the information and services they ...

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 ...

Scores of people from the deaf community travelled to Parliament Buildings in Belfast to witness the historic moment and cheered the passing of the Bill on the front steps of Stormont. The legislation ...

In the UK there are more than 50,000 children who are deaf or have hearing loss, and many of them use British sign language as a way of communicating.

A new law has been introduced in Northern Ireland that will make sign language accessible across the public sector, while making it easier to take sign language lessons. The Sign Language Act secured ...

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 ...