Deaf Awareness

Description of course

Our Deaf Awareness courses explore the issues facing Deaf, Deafened, Hard of Hearing and Deaf Blind People as well as Identifying ways in which services & information may not be accessible.

Some of the areas covered by our training are:

• Overview of MSDP services
• Questionnaire to test attendees prior knowledge of deafness
• Categories of deafness
• Terminology
• Lipreading skills
• Re-phrasing techniques
• Use of Gesture
• Overview of BSL grammar and structure
• Fingerspelling

The course lasts 3 hours, can be held here at MSDP or we can deliver at the booker’s venue if they prefer. We will accept a maximum of 16 people.

For more information and to discuss costs, please contact us on:

• Telephone:0151 228 0888
• Email:trainingone@msdp.org.uk