Month: May 2018

How a mainstream writer and actress came to produce BSL accessible podcasts. Interview with Fran Millican-Slater 

.Reading time 19 minutes.

Over the past 6 months Francesca Millican-Slater and the wider Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night team have redeveloped this 2016 Birmingham Repertory Theatre Commissioned show.  After a run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, national touring, and a regional community tour with their partners Birmingham Repertory Theatre and their Sir Barry Jackson Trust […]

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The hardest thing for me – as a deaf parent to a deaf child 

.Reading time 6 minutes.

It was daunting last year when I navigated school for the first time with my son. Choosing the right school, applying for his place, seeing him transition from nursery child to school child… it was a huge milestone.  And now, as my daughter begins nursery this September, the education journey begins for my second child. […]

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