Matt Evans (Sign Name: Maths ✊🏼)

New RSLI in his 3rd year of MA Interpreting at University of Wolverhampton - all views my own (He/Him) 🏳‍🌈

[Matt Evans (Sign Name: Maths ✊🏼) @Tish1345]

Exciting bit of post arrived today - I'm officially a fully qualified Sign Language Interpreter! 😁🙌🏼 (I still feel like a trainee though - there's so much more left to learn and master! ❤️)

#NRCPDRegistered

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

Yes, sign languages are beautiful but did you know hearing parents are told not to sign with their deaf children by hearing professionals and have to fork out thousands of £ of their own money to learn to sign and to talk to their own kids? #SignLanguageWeek

[Matt Evans (Sign Name: Maths ✊🏼) @Tish1345]

@BSLUSEDHERE @wlv_uni Diolch o Gaerfaddon!! ("Thanks from Bath" if the tiny amount of Cymraeg I've picked up is right) 😁 xx

[Matt Evans (Sign Name: Maths ✊🏼) @Tish1345]

Super excited to receive this in the post today! Thank you to everyone I've met through the MA Interpreting course at @wlv_uni for helping me take this next step! ❤️

#nrcpdregistered

[Matt Evans (Sign Name: Maths ✊🏼) @Tish1345]

@bslmiles @wlv_uni Thanks Miles! I certainly wouldn't be here now without all your wisdom and encouragement over the past year! 🙏🏼

[Lavender Languages Institute @LavenderLang]

🎉🎉 Exciting News! Lavender Languages Institute is thrilled to announce that the course offerings for Summer 2024 are now live! 🎉🎉

🔍 Dive into the course descriptions here: https://t.co/qQKKPCCozf

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

Gender critical thinking seems to share a lot with linguistic prescriptivism. It’s all about what should or should not be, and not actually acknowledging the diversity of human behaviour.

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

21st February is #motherlanguageday
Every deaf child should be given the opportunity to have their community signed language as one of their first languages

[Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith @LNivisonSmith]

Is the paper you need stuck behind a paywall?

Five websites every researcher should know to access any research paper for free

@AcademicChatter
@OpenAcademics

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

Therefore hearing parents and deaf children learning a signed language may be on this journey *together*.

[Amanprit Arnold (She/Her) @amanpritarnold]

Newflash for the Deaf Community! As part of the @MayorofLondon commitment to create a more equal, integrated city, British Sign Language (BSL) courses, up to and including Level 2, will be fully funded for those on London Living Wage (LLW) or are unemployed #BSL #languageaccess

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

General election now.

[Kirsty H @Kirsty_H220]

I often wonder how many children Jo Frost had on her show that were not naughty, but in fact neurodivergent. This is a very stigmatising comment to make for someone with such a large platform. They are not labels, they are a medical diagnosis which brings support for a child.

[This Morning @thismorning]

We’re so excited to welcome @Yumma_Food into the kitchen for our first ever live deaf cookery item. She'll be making her tasty chicken chimichangas, and they're only 40p per parcel!

Stream #ThisMorning live on the ITV Hub 👉https://t.co/1VuxanpnIc

[Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @PaulJMeighan]

Language revitalization is not a zero-sum game.
A language "gain" is not another language's "loss".
Multilingualism was “normal” before colonial conquest & 1–language, 1–nation-state ideologies.
Imperialism, colonialism & capitalism cause language inequities, not multilingualism.

[Pina ✨ADHD Alien Comics @ADHD_Alien]

Petition to make ADHD awareness month for everyone who has ADHD into coping tool sharing month

Me first:
When it’s time to start work, I always drink the same tea and do the same language exercises on my phone to help my brain transition into “work mode”

[Ian Cushing @ian_cushing]

This is how Ofsted inspectors are trained to respond to teachers who resist standard language ideologies. Note how they use guises of 'social justice' to do this, perpetuating the myth that if marginalised people would just modify their voice, this will solve social inequalities.

[Kate Rowley @katerowley0]

This is terrible. 100% false & ignored decades of research into sign languages. Authors clearly haven’t done a comprehensive lit review. I’m deeply offended & appalled. This article shd be removed immediately.

[Matt Evans (Sign Name: Maths ✊🏼) @Tish1345]

A running theme in both the social and health care sectors. Staff wellbeing is frequently disregarded on a practical level in favour of lip service and patronising "advice" such as this. Having a constantly burnt out workforce is completely unsustainable.

[Beyond The Beard @Drmarkredmond]

My wife, a social worker with a heavy caseload gets stupid emails from her employer about #resilience, useful stuff such as take time to go bake a cake.
Yesterday she was asked if she could visit a family at 11pm on Sunday night. She said no. She'll be baking a cake #socialcare