Month: October 2018

Why we shouldn’t always blame speech difficulties on deafness… 

.Reading time 8 minutes.

When my then two year old deaf daughter was attending playgroups, so many people noted how fluently she signed. “It’s because she’s deaf,” they told each other, nodding heads. And when I expressed my concern that she could only vocalise one vowel sound and had zero lip pattern, they came to the same conclusion; “It’s […]

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Meet Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, a deaf YouTube presenter

.Reading time 9 minutes.

I’m not sure when exactly Jessica Kellgren-Fozard first popped up on my Twitter newsfeed, but it’s been a real delight getting to know her online work. Jessica is a YouTube presenter, who chats mostly about disability, deafness, the LGBTQ communities and vintage fashion – amongst other things.  In her own words she is a jolly […]

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