Due to the number of people who booked onto the training sessions, this morning Kathleen taught a second Deaf Awareness and British Sign Language workshop at Guildford Tunsgate. Staff from the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford Museum, city centre retailers and Tunsgate head office staff all enjoyed a morning of learning how to communicate in BSL. […]
The Hawthorns School in Bletchingly, near Redhill, received funding from Surrey Deaf Children’s Society for a Deaf Awareness training workshop for their staff. The school is attended by two children with moderate to severe hearing loss, as well as several at any time experiencing glue ear (8 in 10 children experience this before age ten!) […]
Kathleen and Paul taught a very well received session at St Helier’s Hospital last Friday. Attendees particularly enjoyed pairing up and practising fingerspelling and phrases in British Sign Language. When we create training sessions we include vocabulary and scenarios which are appropriate to the workplace such as meeting and greeting patients / customers, checking an […]
This is a theatre which is committed to being accessible. They host performances with BSL interpreters, captioned performances, and provide hearing enhancement aid when required. Dot Sign Language were approached because Customer Experience Manager Ellen Bleasdale, realised how important it is for the Front of House Team to be able to communicate with Deaf patrons […]
Experience Guildford is a group of 240 city centre retailers who are committed to improving customer service and making Guildford an attractive place to shop, eat and have a great day out. We were delighted when they asked us to teach a half day Deaf Awareness and British Sign Language workshop at their Tunsgate headquarters. […]
Kathleen was invited to London-based digital marketing agency Merkle Periscopix to teach the team British Sign Language. They want to be more welcoming and accessible to D/deaf customers and colleagues. As well as teaching fingerspelling and useful phrases for meeting and greeting, Kathleen taught vocabulary related to their work such as Digital, Data, Marketing, Technology, […]
Frimley Park Hospital see approximately 50 D/deaf patients every month. Many are repeat patients, who have their information flagged on the system; others are new referrals – reliant on their GPs sharing information. It is a shocking fact that throughout the UK, deaf people are at higher risk of high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, mental […]
To mark September 23rd – International Day of Sign Languages, Kathleen taught Deaf Awareness and BSL sessions at Frimley Park Hospital in the morning, and Merkel Periscopix – Digital Marketing experts, in the afternoon. International Day of Sign Languages was proposed by the United Nations. Its objective is to raise awareness on sign languages and […]
STARS is a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for children, young people and their families who have been affected by sexual abuse. With a new team member due to join, who is a Deaf British Sign Language user, the Lead Clinician contacted us. She and the team wanted to do everything they could to […]
When we were contacted by Westlands Medical Centre in Porchester asking us to provide a Deaf Awareness and British Sign Language session for their team, we recognised the importance of this training. Deaf people to not have access to ‘overheard’ health information and face numerous barriers when visting the GP, and receiving a diagnosis and […]
