deafness

by David C Baldridge, Brent John Lyons, Camellia Bryan and Liu-Qin Yang, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hearing loss is a critical diversity, equity and inclusion issue for managers and employers. Persons with hearing loss are a growing population around the world. According to the World Health Organization, over five percent of the world's…

Image: GoogleCaptions on services such as Netflix or YouTube are essential for those with hearing issues—and they’re a handy option for everyone when we’re in loud environments or have to watch videos in silence. Now our phones and laptops have grown smart enough to start captioning both audio and video streams automatically.That means, no matter where you’re watching or listening to something, whether it’s on social media or in a podcast app, you can get access to captions. The development of this feature is at different…

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In 2003, Troi Lee was queueing for a club with a group of friends when he noticed that others were being let in ahead of them. He approached security to ask what was going on, and was told: “You lot are deaf, you aren’t coming in.”Lee had never before experienced discrimination, despite having been a regular raver for a decade. He channelled his anger into setting up the UK’s first deaf rave, to “avoid all that nonsense”.Fast-forward nearly 20 years and deaf rave has gone from being a niche event to the star attraction at…

The Portuguese actor Lúcia Moniz is maybe still best known as the woman Colin Firth falls for in Love Actually. Now she stars in this sombre, angry social-realist drama from the Portuguese film-maker Ana Rocha (a London Film School graduate), which sees Brexit Britain through European eyes. There are some implausibilities and untied plot strands, but also something scary and overwhelmingly sad.Moniz and Ruben Garcia play Bela and Jota, a Portuguese couple with three children in a London council flat who have fallen on…