If your organisation is working towards principles such as inclusion and diversity, deaf employees can enhance your organisation’s offer to the public. The only limitation to any deaf person is the limit you place on a potential employee due to your own ideas about deafness (also known as unconscious bias). Each person manages their hearing […]
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Tips to help create a positive work environment for deaf/hard of hearing employees at meetings, training and generally at work: Tips to help create a positive work environment for deaf/hard of hearing employees atmeetings, training and generally at work Before the Meeting: · Consider the layout of the room (i.e. circular seating) in order to
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After reading the Limping Chicken blog on cinema subtitles and seeing one of our community members experience difficulties at the cinema, we thought we would add our views on the subject. Subtitles are more than ‘a deaf issue’. By limiting access to films, deaf and hard of hearing customers, their families and friends are also affected. There are other
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Never worked with a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter before? Here is our top ten list of handy tips and actions you can take so you can work with a BSL interpreter confidently. When two parties use different languages, language professionals are used to facilitating communication. Contrary to popular belief, communication is not a given.
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The art of communication is a tricky skill to navigate. You need to be able to give enough information to be understood. Unfortunately, this does not always happen. We make assumptions about our communication skills and the ability of others to understand. Communication is ‘the act of conveying information’ yet many people are unclear how
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