Deaf Awareness Week: 'You don't look deaf...'

Comments like 'You don't look deaf' and 'how do you have a conversation with your husband?' - just some of the cringeworthy things that deaf people say they've had when talking to others about their disability.

Yet only a fraction of those people use British Sign Language.

It's Deaf Awareness Week, which aims to raise awareness and challenge perceptions of hearing loss and deafness across the UK.

Some of those experiences are being shared in a new campaign video put together for Deaf Awareness Week.

Sign languages evolve all over the world, wherever there are Deaf people. As you'd expect with spoken languages, there are variations with sign language too.

For example, even though the main language in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States is English - all three have separate sign languages.

You can find out more about the stats, signs and stigma around deafness here.