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British Sign Language interpreter, I assumed the hardest part would be the languages and all their intricacies. Turns out, it’s not the languages ...

On 28th April 2026 in Belfast, something remarkable happened on the front steps of Stormont. The deaf community travelled in droves to Northern Ireland’s Parliament Buildings to witness a historic ...

I stumbled upon a blog I wrote back in 2017 when my son had just finished his first year of nursery school. He was four years old at the time and I was bracing myself for the next however many ...

Departure Lounge Festival returns to Derby Theatre this year with a growing focus on deaf access, BSL interpretation and captioning. I spoke to Executive Producer Jen Sullivan about how the ...

Laura at Mango Wisdom Wellness is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) who now lives in Goa, India where she has spent the last decade combining her passions for yoga, Ayurveda, wellbeing and community ...

I went to a great conference today. It was riveting and I was hooked on pretty much every word. And then I got home and collapsed on the sofa. I’m not just tired, I’m shattered. I’ve had to turn my ...

The rave reviews of Signworld visitors who visited Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park last month made Limping Chicken hungry to know more about the Park’s Deaf director, John Denerley. This seemed a ...

A deaf-led access charity, Stagetext, has secured £183,356 from the Creative Foundations Fund, part of the government’s Arts Everywhere Fund, to expand access to captioned theatre performances across ...

Welcome to The Limping Chicken, the UK’s independently-run deaf culture and news site. Since 2012, we’ve published writing by Deaf people across the UK and the world, laying eggs every week, clocking ...

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 ...