ohn Brewster was a famous deaf American.  I’m going to be putting several of these little bios up because I think it’s just so interesting how people lived and made a name for themselves, hearing and deaf alike.  As this is an American Sign Language blog, these people will all be somehow connected with ASL […]

   
s part of an assignment for school, I watched 3 regular TV shows in Closed Captioning with the sound turned off completely.  It was a really interesting experience, and less disruptive to my regular TV watching habits than I would have thought.  I watched The Bonnie Hunt Show on NBC 4, Divine Design on […]

Aussie actress Kiruna Stamell is set to appear in a major new BBC One drama called All The Small Things. In the six part series, she stars in an ensemble cast alongside Sarah Lancashire and Neil Pearson as one of…

 tell people that I’m shy all the time, but they usually just scoff at me.  I’m incredibly friendly if someone wants to chat with me first, and I have no problem at all getting up in front of an audience, but put me in a situation where I have to make the first move and […]

We’ve had guide dogs, guide ponies, hearing dogs and even helping hand monkeys, but could disabled people riding ’seeing-eye horses’ along the high street be the next big thing when it comes to employing assistance animals? If Tabitha Darling of…

Here’s the disability photo story of the week: David Beckham handling prosthetic limbs as he and other big name England players meet service personnel who were injured while fighting in Afghanistan. In the pics we see Britain’s most famous footballer…

The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner, who became disabled after being involved in a gun attack in Saudi Arabia in 2004, has gone from the heat of the studio lights of the newsroom to the chill of the ski slopes….