Services
If you are deaf, disabled, or struggle to hear or take notes; a Lipspeaker, Lipspeaker with additional sign or Notetaker could provide the service you need. Funding is available through the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) or Access to Work (AtW).
With the BSL Act 2022 being passed; your school/business may benefit from Deaf Awareness Training or an Introduction to British Sign Language Course. Details are below. Please get in touch.
A ‘Lipspeaker’ is a hearing person who has been professionally trained to be easy to lipread.
Lipspeakers clearly reproduce the shapes of the words and the natural rhythm and stress used by the speaker. They also use facial expression, gesture and, if requested, finger spelling, to aid the lipreader’s understanding. This practise is known as ‘Lipspeaking’.
Lipspeaking using Additional Signs is for those who prefer to lipread but may use some BSL to help support the meaning.
The Lipspeaker should have a minimum qualification of Level 2 BSL to offer this communication support.
ENT’s produce a real-time summary of what is said using an ordinary laptop computer. This can be linked to a second device for the client to read from or live streamed via a URL link where the client can adjust the font, colour and style of the typing.
Notetakers provide accurate notes in a variety of formats and work in a number of settings including professional, conference, community, medical and academic.
This course is made up of 10 one hour lessons run over a 10 week period or two school terms. Lessons can be tailored to suite existing timetables. The course covers, introduction to BSL, the new BSL Act, the deaf community, deaf awareness, fingerspelling, names, words, numbers, handshapes, sentences and by the end small conversations in BSL.
This is a 1-hour course on Deaf Awareness and an introduction to the BSL Act 2022. Ideal to tag on to a monthly team meeting. This training covers; introduction to the new BSL Act, awareness of the deaf community, communication tactics with deaf (D) and hard of hearing (d) people; considerations on environment, physical body and natural gestures when communicating with D/deaf colleagues, guests, clients and friends. Delivered in person or virtually.
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The dream is to be on stage with Westlife one day…
