This morning Kathleen Grehan, Director of Dot Sign Language, was interviewed on Brooklands Radio by DJ Tim Mitchell. Reaching audiences throughout Surrey, the show will be aired this Saturday afternoon between 3 and 6pm. It will be possible to listen either live or after this date via the Brooklands Radio website. https://www.brooklandsradio.co.uk/ Kathleen was keen to […]
Here’s Paul from our team to show you some basic British Sign Language (BSL). You can see all our courses here. Kathleen
Are you currently studying BSL Level 2? Would you like to be able to make a difference by supporting deaf children in their education? Are you looking for a job where you can develop your signing skills in-post? This temporary position offers you the opportunity to work in deaf education while also improving your BSL […]
A great taster session this morning at Squires Garden Centre, Woking. Thank you to everyone who came along to find out more about BSL. I hope you enjoy practising fingerspelling and that we will see you on future courses. Contact us if you know a group of people who would like to find out about […]
Paul is looking forward to starting the new year with a new course – he will be teaching a 10 week ‘Introduction to BSL’ course at The Recovery College in Frimley. Recovery Colleges help people improve their health and wellbeing through educational courses on a range of psychological, mental and physical health conditions. By learning […]
We have had several teenagers learn BSL with us for their ‘skills’ section of their Bronze, Silver or Gold DofE award. We are very happy that more have booked this year. This February as well as running a full Level 1 course with three assessments, we are offering the chance to just do the first […]
We have had a great year teaching BSL course, visiting a wide variety of companies to teach Deaf awareness, and working in the community with Scouts, Guides and other youth groups. We hope you enjoy our Christmas message. See you next year!
On Saturday Kathleen and an interpreter travelled to St Pancras Leisure Centre in North London to teach a group of swimming instructors BSL. The session started with Deaf Awareness – the importance of ensuring eye contact and keeping communication clear, to the point and visual. The instructors had given us a long list of phrases […]
The Dot team were very excited to be approached by Gavin Neate – entrepreneur, and founder of Neatebox. He asked us if we could provide a short video of very basic signs to help customer service staff greet Deaf BSL users. We think ‘Welcome by Neatebox’ is an extremely innovative app which has the potential […]
Lovely example of our community work last night – Lisa ran 2 workshops for the 1st Knaphill Guides. They are working on their Communication Badge, part of which is learning BSL. Their leader organised a ‘Disability Awareness Evening and asked us to be part of it. Lisa enthusiastically explained (in BSL, interpreted by a Communication […]
