Twilight Lecture by Bencie Woll, Monday 13 July
The next Twilight Lecture will be given by Bencie Woll. The free event, "Language and the Deaf Brain" will take place on Monday 13th July at 5.30pm at The Ear Foundation.
Bencie Woll is professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies in the Department of Cognitive Perceptual and Brain Sciences at University College London and also the Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre – the largest centre of its kind in the world.
Before coming to London, she was at Bristol, where she first worked on language acquisition and then was a co-founder of the Centre for Deaf Studies, pioneering research on the linguistics of BSL and on Deaf Studies. Her research and teaching interests embrace a wide range of topics including the development of language in young deaf children, developmental and acquired sign language impairments, and the deaf brain.
This talk takes as its starting point the fact that all human communication is essentially multi-channel. It will explore this multi-modality – both in spoken language and sign language, through explorations of speech and sign processing, and functional imaging studies of language and the deaf brain.
Deaf and foreign language patients at the Royal United Hospital will be helped by a pioneering new communications service.
'YourLocalCinema.com', the not-for-profit cinema listings and information service for people with hearing or sight difficulties, has been shortlisted for a National Lottery Award in the 'Best Arts Project' category.
Hearing Times, the only national newspaper for people with hearing loss in the UK, is setting up a campaign to donate money to charities on readers' behalves.
Donaldson’s, Scotland’s national residential and day school for children who are deaf or have speech and language difficulties, has proven its commitment to providing pupils, staff and visitors with the best level of care and support, by achieving RNID’s prestigious Louder than Words charter mark.
Andrew and Caroline Thomson, Directors of Sign Now.com are heading out to Taipei in September this year to cover the Deaflympics. Andrew and Caroline will act as media correspondents for their time in Taipei and will be posting videos of the event on 
I was born deaf due to B.O.R (Branchio-oto-Renal syndrome). It was genetics from my dad's side of the family.
