The Silent Child on BBC website

“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small…” The classic hymn by Cecil Frances Alexander has endured the test of time, 200 years after her birth. But few know of the part both great and small that the hymn played in transforming the education of deaf children in 19th century northern Ireland. And…

A film by Jessica Docherty featuring British Sign Language poet Tania Allan signing her work ‘The Land and the Sea’, which uses the Scottish folklore of the selkie wife as a means of exploring themes such as oppression, deaf culture, deaf community, sign language and communication. Watch at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08p0pwv

With Action Deaf in Youth