Your hand

and “barren” in Old English. In addition, when using the word in machines with autocorrect it is often changed to

“death” which obviously has negative overtones.

When you ask someone what deaf means they will say “someone who can’t hear.” It’s all about what they can’t do. Even the sign means “can’t hear, and can’t speak,” according to Deaf educator and author Rachel Zemach.

Her preferred alternative then is ‘Sumain’ a French word meaning Your Hand.

The sign for it looks like a flower bud, twisting at the chest and bursting open. It represents the following concepts, all of which are treasure values in the Deaf community: collective, visual, spatial, global, tactile, light.

“If you were Deaf, wouldn’t you prefer that to being called empty and barren” she asks.

As times change so do words and it is possible that there is a need to change the definition, although equally this could simply be either another ‘woke’ concept from America.

For those who want to learn more, the marketing for the new book explains “She shares captivating firsthand accounts from her life as a Deaf person and explores the differences in thinking between two major, and often conflicting, viewpoints on how to educate Deaf children, and how she saw the two different approaches impacting students.”

For many with all of their senses intact it is very difficult to understand how anyone, who exists without one, manages to cope, but those who are blind or deaf in particular appear to be able to react remarkably and live their best lives.

THE Las Cigarreras Cultural Centre in Alicante continues its Jazz and Blues Summer concert cycle this Friday, August 11, with free performances of these musical genres offered throughout the month of August.

The jazz and blues concerts take place every Friday in August at 9pm in the Jardín Vertical de Las Cigarreras. On August 11, the jazz quintet Swing26 will perform, with a repertoire based on gypsy jazz and swing full of original arrangements and own compositions.

The third weekend, on August 18, it will be the turn of Older Dogs Blues, a quartet with a proposal in the purest Chicago blues style. Finally, the programme will close on August 25 with The Flag Boy's Band, a blues quartet with a New Orleans sound.

The councillor for culture, Nayma

Beldjilali, said "with programmes like this we are committed to quality music in its different genres and we offer a cultural option aimed at all audiences,