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City Lit tips for coping with tinnitus
1 February 2021
This Tinnitus Awareness Week (1-7 February 2021) City Lit supports the British Tinnitus Association campaign to make sure that everyone with tinnitus gets the right information, from the right place, ...
Deaf Mosaic by City Lit photography student Stephen Iliffe
24 November 2020
The deaf community is an astonishingly diverse mosaic of ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and different ways of life. In a series of intimate photographic portraits and stories, City Lit photog...
Tips for including deaf and hard of hearing people in an online meeting from our lipreading department at City Lit.
Adapting to change to support the deaf community
19 August 2020
There is no doubting that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to the deaf community. As a very social community, people who communicate through British Sign Language depend on face-to-fac...
City Lit’s trainee lipreading teachers celebrated in virtual party style on the final day of their course as they became the first ever lipreading teachers to qualify online.
In the UK, 12 million people have hearing loss and at least 4.4. million people with hearing loss are of working age so the chances are that you will have a colleague who will struggle with their hear...
Guardian journalist Saba Salman discusses the challenges of working from home for deaf people with City Lit
23 April 2020
Guardian journalist Saba Salman visited City Lit earlier this year to discuss the challenges and solutions of working from home for Deaf people or those with hearing loss.
Deaf Day
16 January 2020
Come and celebrate Deaf Day with us on Saturday 18 April 2020, 10:00 - 16:00 at City Lit.
How much sign language do you know?
16 April 2019
Did you know that 24,000 people use British Sign Language (BSL) as their first language, but our research revealed that a whopping 94% of Brits don’t know more than two words in BSL?
City Lit stories - Ilyaas Cader
12 April 2019
Ilyaas travelled from Sri Lanka, surviving an incredible journey across Europe, to join his brother in London. He went on to study English at City Lit and now works as a Senior Deaf Children’s Menta...