Deaf Awareness Training
Want To Learn Basic Language Skills To Communicate Simple Conversations With Deaf People?
At your workplace
Deaf Employees
Empower your team to communicate and work together
Deaf Customers
Give your front line staff the skills and confident to deal with Deaf people
Management Decisions
Understand and develop better policies including Deaf people
For employers, our Deaf Awareness Training can help you with making decisions on reasonable adjustments for Deaf employees, as required under the Equality Act 2010. It can also help to facilitate effective communication between Deaf/Hard of Hearing and hearing employees.
Our training packages are bespoke to each client, and this is something we pride ourselves on. We will develop a training package to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
A typical Deaf Awareness workshop covers the following topics:
Basic British Sign Language
What is deafness?
Lip-reading
Deaf culture
Coping with communication difficulties
Tips for effective communication
Whether you have a Deaf employee, and want to facilitate equality of access within the team, or you want to raise the awareness of front of house staff on the communication needs of Deaf customers, we can help.
Introduction to BSL
Our Introduction to British Sign Language training is another popular workshop we can deliver to either corporate clients or individuals.
For employers, our Introduction to British Sign Language training can help facilitate effective communication within your team between Deaf/hard of hearing and hearing employees or for hearing employees who have customer facing roles and come in to contact with Deaf members of the public.
The Introduction to British Sign Language workshop will cover the following topics:
Lipreading
Fingerspelling
The differences between BSL and Makaton
What is British Sign Language?
Range of vocabulary in BSL
Deaf culture
Delegates will learn will learn how to fingerspell their name, how to say basic greetings in BSL and how to say basic work-related expressions.
We have over 15 years of experience in delivering BSL courses and workshops and we have worked in a huge variety of settings, including the health sector, law firms and the entertainment industry.
All our workshops are bespoke and are designed according to your specific requirements.
Feel free to call us on 0207 269 2621 or email training@remark.uk.com
“Our staff really enjoyed and benefitted from the session, and it was great for us to be able to support a local organisation.”
City of London Corporation
“We used Remark! to provide Deaf Awareness Training to members of our People team. The session was professionally delivered and we found it very beneficial in increasing our understanding of deaf awareness issues.”
Ben - Virgin Atlantic
“The training delivered by Remark! to some of our front line staff was great fun and has made the staff much more confident in welcoming deaf people to our Ground.”
Russell - Lord’s Cricket Ground
“The course on Deaf Awareness was really well put together, I haven’t enjoyed a ‘training’ course like that in a long time. it was such a valuable use of my time.”
Sarah - Merlin Entertainments
“Wonderful and insightful workshop to help me understand terms and definitions of what is acceptable to use, and also tips on how to best work with a deaf colleague”
David - Ford motors
