Dot Sign Language celebrated Deaf Awareness Week with a session for AAT including the history of Deaf Education, culture, technology; as well as communication tips, fingerspelling and basic BSL phrases. Using Zoom Kathleen was able to incorporate the interpreter and meet AAT staff from their homes. Contact us if you would like similar training for your […]
Dot Sign Language will not allow lockdown to stop us marking Deaf Awareness Week. Our passion has always been raising awareness of Deaf issues, improving accessibility and teaching British Sign Language. Having got to grips with Zoom, our teachers are committed to teaching our BSL courses and supporting every student. Great news – this week the first […]
Kathleen and Paul recently taught a 10 week British Sign Language course for a group at AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians,) which started at their London headquarters and was completed via Zoom. Their staff are extremely keen to learn BSL because one of their team is Deaf and a BSL user. We were delighted when AAT […]
Thank you Beaufort School for inviting Dot Sign Language to give assemblies to Key Stage 1 and 2 this morning. The school have been celebrating Deaf Awareness week and it was wonderful to see how excited the children were to learn some signs and how to fingerspell. They asked Kathleen some very insightful questions about […]
Next week – May 6th – 12th, is Deaf Awareness Week. At Dot we will be focusing on our work in the community. We have been invited to give assemblies at Beaufort School in Woking to talk with the children about being Deaf and to answer their questions. We are guest speakers and on a […]
We were thrilled when SCOR – The Global Risk Management company asked Dot to be part of their Global Diversity week. As it is also Deaf Awareness Week what better time for us to teach a British Sign Language session to twenty people at their London Office. Kathleen and Paul discussed Deaf […]
Next week is a very important week in our calendar. Deaf Awareness Week runs from May 14th – 20th, and is an opportunity for all of us who are connected to the Deaf World to make as many people as possible aware of Deaf issues. At Dot, every week is packed full of teaching BSL […]
Dot joined with instructors from Aldershot Snowsports for the Disabled (ASD) to sponsor and organise a Free Ski Taster session, to celebrate Deaf Awareness Week. Thirteen children and their parents turned up. These included Deaf children and their hearing brothers and sisters. Twelve volunteers, including ski instructors, CSWs and BSL interpreters helped make the evening […]
Skiers, instructors, Deaf and hearing worked together to learn some BSL and to explore a BSL lexicon for skiers. To celebrate Deaf Awareness week Dot Sign Language and the club, Aldershot Snowsports for the Disabled (ASD) organised a social/workshop evening with a purpose. The idea was to teach our hearing ski instructors some BSL but […]
This year the theme is ‘Common Purpose’. So what is Deaf Awareness week all about? It is about organisations and charities, with a common purpose, supporting deafness, by raising awareness of their goals, ambitions and aspirations. Its about promoting social inclusion and positive aspects of deafness. For Dot Sign Language, Deaf Awareness Week is an […]
