Official figures released in the summer show that people with a hearing impairment are 45% more likely to have reported feeling lonely during lockdown. Stagetext, a charity which provides captioning and live subtitling in theatres and cultural venues, stresses the disproportionate impact of lockdown on deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing people.
Since the first UK lockdown, the charity has seen an increase in demand for live captioned performances online, with a 110% increase in live subtitled events from April to October. Stagetext reports that while nearly 18% of UK adults have hearing loss, fewer than 1% are fluent in British Sign Language.
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