It was this sentiment from actress and Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis that drove her to make a new documentary for BBC One. Across two episodes of Old Hands, New Tricks, she and her team of BSL ...

Watch: how do you sign 'carbon footprint' in BSL? Until now climate-related terms like "greenhouse gas" and "carbon footprint", didn't have official signs in British Sign Language (BSL). That meant ...

When Strictly Come Dancing crowned Rose Ayling-Ellis as its 2021 winner, nearly 12 million viewers watched history being made. Her win marked a turning point in UK media, reshaping how Deaf culture ...

Access to language is gaining attention as the core of rights for people with disabilities. With awareness of sign language as a linguistic tool rising throughout society, the spread and expansion of ...

Like many young people in Singapore and elsewhere, 25-year-old Quek Kai Yu sometimes finds it difficult to communicate with his parents. But in his case, the generation gap isn't always to blame. Quek ...

British Sign Language (BSL) is set to become a recognised language after the government backed a campaign by a Labour MP. Rosie Cooper‘s Private Member’s Bill aiming to include BSL interpreters in ...

Colleen and Susannah Agnew are calling for better deaf awareness A health trust has apologised to a deaf couple after hospital staff did not know what a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter was.

India is soon to publish its first sign language dictionary. BBC Hindi's Divya Arya meets the people behind a unique initiative. Apart from a few clicks on computer keyboards and the routine shuffling ...