Sitting in the middle… 

It was only a chair.  It was just the placement of the chair that “told” others I was an – ahem – inbetweener.  I was at a children’s party, feeding my daughter while my son danced about when I noticed a deaf guy pointing at me.  He was asking others who had congregated in a […]

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When Dame Evelyn met Sean… 

“Deafness does not mean that you can’t hear, only that there is something wrong with the ears. Even someone who is totally deaf can still hear/feel sounds”. (Glennie, 2010) We had a visitor one day when I was at Mary Hare school for the deaf. She had wild hair and was moving about while she […]

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