Invented for You | 6 Innovations That Could Change the Lives of People with Disabilities: A Pillow That Wakes the Deaf and a Sock That Detects Falls - Al-Masry Light
Invented for You | 6 Innovations That Could Change the Lives of People with Disabilities: A Pillow That Wakes the Deaf and a Sock That Detects Falls — Egyptian Light
Federal University of Sergipe Announces Admissions Calls for Music, Brazilian Sign Language Studies, and Veterinary Medicine
Federal University of Sergipe Issues Calls for Applications for Admission to Music, Brazilian Sign Language Studies, and Veterinary Medicine
Deaf, non-verbal man reported missing again, days after being found
Deaf, non-verbal man reported missing again, days after being found ValleyCentral.com
Call for Applications Offers 15 Spots for Deaf Students in the UFG Language and Literature Program: Brazilian Sign Language (Libras)
Call for Applications Offers 15 Spots for Deaf Students in the UFG-Verbena Institute’s Language and Literature Program: Brazilian Sign Language (Libras)
Behind Bars, Deaf Adults and Children Still Have Rights
Behind Bars, Deaf Adults and Children Still Have Rights Law.com
State police kill disabled man with gun during search of his Pa. home
Pennsylvania State Police shot and killed Darion Thompson, 26, a deaf man with intellectual disabilities, while serving a search warrant at his home in Washington, Pa. Police said he did not respond to verbal commands to drop a gun.
From Descriptive Commentary to Sign Language: Making Sports Content Accessible to People with Disabilities - Al-Dustour Newspaper
From Descriptive Commentary to Sign Language: Making Sports Content Accessible to People with Disabilities — Al-Dustour Newspaper
New Round of National Action Plan for the Standardization of Sign Language and Braille Launched
New Round of National Action Plan for the Standardization of Sign Language and Braille Launched — Sina.com
Students from Piracicaba (SP) Advance to the Semifinals of Solve for Tomorrow Brazil with a Project to Expand Communication in Brazilian Sign Language
Students from Piracicaba (SP) Advance to the Semifinals of Solve for Tomorrow Brazil with a Project to Expand Communication in Brazilian Sign Language samsung.com
Algerian Sign Language Faces the Challenge of Training and Artificial Intelligence - Al-Masaa
Algerian Sign Language Faces the Challenge of Training and Artificial Intelligence — Al-Masaa
The News on October 13 in Flemish Sign Language
The October 13 News in Flemish Sign Language on
Deaf schoolgirls from Abuja reach Technovation Girls global finals with AI menstrual-health app
Five Deaf students from Government Secondary School, Kuje, Abuja are global finalists at the 2026 Technovation Girls World Summit in Bengaluru, India. Their team, STRIM Girls, built Saving Pad, an AI-powered app that helps girls, especially Deaf students and those with disabilities, find sanitary pad banks, request products and learn about menstrual health.
Volunteer Teachers Transform Lives by Teaching Brazilian Sign Language, Science, and Soccer
Volunteer teachers are changing lives by teaching Brazilian Sign Language, science, and soccer bra1.com.br
Helen Keller Services honors Canon and others with ‘AccessAbility’ awards on Long Island
Helen Keller Services awarded Canon U.S.A. and four other organizations for their innovations and commitments to accessibility for people who are blind, DeafBlind or have low vision, and for the broader disability community.
Public transport stories
The evidence tells us that many deaf people and people with hearing loss have to navigate barriers that most passengers never have to think about when using public transport. Here, we show how what those barriers are like in practice, with two stories from Sarah and Charlotte. Sa
Policy statement: Transport
RNID uses evidence to inform our work to change the lives of individuals, systems and services, and society and public attitudes. This policy statement draws on insights from our evidence review, Clear Signals report (2026) and our work with deaf people and people with hearing lo
Meriti Student Advances in Math Olympiad in Brazilian Sign Language
Meriti Student Advances in the Math Olympiad in Brazilian Sign Language
Porto Alegre City Council Events Now Feature Brazilian Sign Language Interpreters
Porto Alegre City Council events will now feature interpreters from Libras Coletiva.net
Conclusions and future research
This review has identified a range of barriers and enablers of access for deaf people and people with hearing loss when they use public transport. These relate to systems and infrastructure, information and communication, and attitudes and awareness. The studies reviewed here sug
Mira Podorský introduces Captitles, a new way to create theatre captions (BSL)
Hi, I’m Mira Podorský, founder and product designer of Captitles — software designed to make theatre captioning easier. I’ve always […]
Encounter and Inclusion: Travelling exhibition in Brig-Glis brings deafness to life - Pomona
Encounter and Inclusion: Travelling exhibition in Brig-Glis brings deafness to life Pomona
Theatre group to present signed performance of classic musical
Burnley Light Opera Society will stage a British Sign Language signed performance of My Fair Lady on Tuesday, November 10, with Andy Higgins of Vee Ltd interpreting, after last year's signed Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Access to public transport for deaf people and people with hearing loss
The primary finding of this review was the significant lack of robust evidence about access to UK public transport services for deaf people and people with hearing loss. However, the limited available data suggests that accessibility is a significant challenge. 33% of disabled pe
Evidence review: Access to public transport for deaf people and people with hearing loss in the UK
Public transport review executive summary This review was funded by the Motability Foundation as part of a larger research project . The results of this review were used to inform RNID’s research on public transport use, which begins to fill the significant gaps in the evidence.
The Governor of the Capital Receives Student Munira Al-Ajmi and Praises Her Initiative to Promote Sign Language - Al-Watan Newspaper
The Governor of the Capital Receives Student Munira Al-Ajmi and Praises Her Initiative to Promote Sign Language — Al-Watan Newspaper
Public transport: quick facts and figures
Accessing public transport can be challenging for deaf people and people with hearing loss in the UK. How often people experience problems accessing public transport 77% experience barriers on public transport, for BSL users this figure is 94% ( RNID Clear Signals report, 2026 )
Public transport: evidence pack
There are widespread barriers to use of public transport by deaf people and people with hearing loss in the UK. We’ve reviewed the published research, gathered stories of lived experience, conducted original social research, and set out the changes we want to see. The post Public
ENS e Metroservice: aperte le candidature per docenti di pratica LIS e teoria - Ente Nazionale Sordi ETS-APS
ENS e Metroservice: aperte le candidature per docenti di pratica LIS e teoria Ente Nazionale Sordi ETS-APS
Policy statement: Employment
This policy statement draws on insights from our employment evidence review and our work with deaf people and people with hearing loss to set out the changes we want to see, and how we can make that a reality. Deaf people and people with hearing loss need equal opportunities to e