Deaf Awareness Training

Deaf Awareness

Deaf Awareness training is one of our most popular workshops with both corporate clients and individuals. Our bespoke Deaf Awareness training packages are fun and interactive.

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:

What is deafness?
Coping with communication difficulties
Basic British Sign Language
Deaf culture
Lip-reading
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.

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Introduction to BSL

Introduction to BSL

Our Introduction to British Sign Language training is another popular 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:

What is British Sign Language?
The differences between BSL and Makaton
Deaf culture
Fingerspelling
Lipreading

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.

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"We had a wonderful experience taking an extended BSL level 1 course taught by Remark! at Google's London offices. I was particularly impressed with our tutor, Lorraine, her enthusiasm and experience made learning BSL even more fun than it would otherwise have been".

Google

Wiesner

“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”.

Virgin

Ben

“The course on Deaf Awareness was really well put together, I haven’t enjoyed a ‘training’ course like that in a long time. I really got a lot out of it, it was such a valuable use of my time.”

Merlin Entertainments

Sarah

“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.”

Lord's Cricket Ground

Russell

“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”

Ford

David