One in Six people in the UK experience deafness. Deafness Resource Centre offer tailored deaf awareness sessions across the North West, designed to improve communication and remove barriers between D/deaf people and hearing people.
Under the Equality Act (2010) Employers and service providers have a duty to ensure equal access to services and employment opportunities for D/deaf people. The overall aim of DAT is to increase the understanding of the challenges faced by people with all degrees of deafness in the workplace and in social settings. Training is available to any organisations, charities, schools, groups, or individuals.
Aims
- To introduce participants to issues faced by D/deaf people in everyday life.
- To introduce participants to communication tactics.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the numbers of D/deaf people across the UK
- To be able to describe D/deaf people with various levels of deafness using appropriate terms.
- To understand Deaf Culture
- To be able to attract a D/deaf person’s attention
- To be able to communicate through fingerspelling
- To be able to sign basic sentences (e.g. Can I help you?)
- To be aware of how to improve communication between speakers and lipreaders
- To understand BSL/English interpreters and the levels they work at
- To understand equipment and services available to D/deaf people
Training can be delivered at your own venue, our accessible training room or remotely. For information or to enquire about cost please contact: T: 01744 23887 E: training@deafnessresourcecentre.org
