Tamara has been with Dot Sign Language all week on a work experience placement. Growing up with Deaf parents who are both BSL users, Tamara is a fluent signer. She has taken BSL Levels 1 and 2 with Dot, and last year challenged herself to Level 3. This required her to study BSL linguistics as […]
Hello, my name Tamara. I’m currently doing a week of work experience with DOT Sign Language. The reason I’m so interested in BSL is because both my parents are deaf. I’ve grown up in the deaf community and have many deaf or hard-of-hearing friends. As a CODA (child of deaf adults) I have many responsibilities […]
Following her five-star solo show WHITE, Koko Brown now brings the world premiere of GREY, the second instalment of her Colour Trilogy, to Ovalhouse this summer. This autobiographical new show candidly explores depression and challenges the taboos which so often obscure black women’s mental health. But, this is not a production about suffering from depression, […]
Venue: Pinnocks Coffee House, High St, Ripley, Woking GU23 6AF. Date and Time: Friday July 19th, 10-11am. Cost: £10. Payable in cash on the day or in advance by BACS. This is an informal 1 hour session when we will give you a taste of British Sign Language (BSL.) We will teach you how to […]
If you are interested in joining a BSL course with Dot Sign Language in September and have not studied with us before (or if it has been a long time!!) please contact us so we can arrange an informal interview. It is a requirement from the BSL examination board Signature that we check to ensure […]
Kathleen has taught BSL as an option for the Global Graduate Award in Languages, as well as a BSL evening course at the University of Surrey for several years now. For this reason she was delighted to be asked by the People, Culture and Inclusion Manager to teach a Deaf Awareness and BSL session for […]
We will be holding an information afternoon for anyone interested in BSL Level 6 or Pre-Level 6. Date: THIS SATURDAY – June 22nd, 1.30 – 4.00pm Venue: The University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH. We will be in Teaching Block rooms 12A and 12B. Kathleen Grehan – Director of Dot Sign Language will explain the aim, course […]
Our local NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are committed to improving access to primary care services in a way that ensures a person’s language and communication needs don’t prevent them from receiving the same quality of healthcare as others. This includes Deaf BSL users. At Dot Sign Language we felt it was important to attend the engagement […]
Kathleen and Paul, along with Jan, Lisa and partners and friends, had a fabulous evening at the CSSEF dinner and ball. As well as being an opportunity to catch up with friends and make new like-minded contacts, the event raised huge sums for local Deaf children. We cannot overstate how much Karen Jackson and her […]
Art Night is London’s largest contemporary art festival. Christine Sun Kim is a Berlin-based artist whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL.)She uses the media of drawing and sound in performance to investigate her relationship with spoken language and the aural environment. For Art Night 2019 Kim will collaborate with students at Frank Barnes […]
