A new film has been produced in Manchester which aims to highlight the experience of deaf people in 21st century Britain.
'Out of it?' has taken interviews with six deaf people, all carried out at Manchester Deaf Centre, to reveal some shocking stories, ranging from a man who slept though a hotel fire because the staff forgot that they had a deaf couple staying with them, to a woman in labour who was denied an interpreter due to costs as her birth started to become dangerously complicated. She didn't know what was happening.
The film's creator, Jane Cordell, became deaf following an illness and is now one of the UK's most influential disabled people, according to the Power 100 list. She says of the film,
'We take basic rights in the UK for granted: our safety, health and being able to work and learn. But how would you feel if you faced barriers to these rights? Deaf people often do, but their experience is rarely known. We made this film to present examples of this experience to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. It is important to build on this work.'
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