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Are Deaf people naturally optimistic? How much do Deaf people think they can influence stressful situations in their lives? There's a major study into the attitudes of BSL users and the researchers need as many Deaf people as possible to fill in an online questionnaire that is available in BSL. The study is being run jointly by the Social Research with Deaf people group at the University of Manchester, and the Deafness, Cognition and Language research centre, and the London Psychometric LaboratoryÌýat the University of London. You can find out more by going to

And, if you're the sort of person who's fascinated by our Stories Behind the Signs and you're hungry for a deeper knowledge of linguistics, DCAL is going to be running a Linguistic course for 11 weeks on Thursdays from 8th October to 17th December and they're looking for Deaf people to enrol. For course information look at

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