Deaf Awareness Training
By Edinburgh Community Health Forum
Date and time
Tue, 7 Jun 2016 09:30 - 11:30 GMT+1
Location
Deaf Action
49 Albany Street Edinburgh EH1 3QY United KingdomDescription
Leah Kalaitzi, Adults Learning and Health Access Officer at Deaf Action, has kindly offered to deliver a session on deaf awareness.
This course will cover the following:
- Types of deafness
- British Sign Language
- Statistics
- Unacceptable terms
- How would you know if someone is deaf?
- Communication support
- Group activity – think about barriers
- Communication tips – integration and inclusion
- Group activity – How would you work with an interpreter?
- Working with an interpreter
- Let’s learn some fingerspelling!
- Let’s learn some BSL!
- Lip-reading exercises
- Case studies
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