Deaf awareness training courses and consultancy for organisations

business training courses

Hearing loss affects more than 10 million people in the UK, and 600 million worldwide. The chances are you work with some of them. Many more could be your potential customers. Deaf awareness training courses make business sense.

Our deaf awareness training courses help you open up your organisation to the one in six people in the UK with hearing loss. That’s a lot of potential customers. We are happy to tailor any of our deaf awareness training courses to create a bespoke agenda specifically for your organisation.

Our deaf awareness training courses

With our deaf awareness training courses you will learn how to communicate confidently with deaf colleagues and customers. All training courses are provided by qualified trainers. Our bilingual trainers use English as their first language, and provide deaf awareness training courses from the perspective of both your organisation and your potential customers.

We provide deaf awareness training courses in:

Deaf awareness training / equality and communications skills

(full day or half day)

Aim: to enhance awareness and knowledge of issues around deafness and hearing loss, including the legal rights of deaf people.

Objectives:
Help break down barriers to communications in all forms.

  • Increase understanding of communication needs for people with different levels of hearing loss.
  • Examine ways in which people respond to losing hearing, and how we respond to people with hearing loss.

Participants will be able to try out try out hearing aids, practise lipreading exercises and learn the two-handed BSL alphabet.

To find out more about our deaf awareness training courses contact us.

Setting up for remote live captioning

(1 hour)

Aim: to ensure best practice in setting up the environment and equipment needed to run an effective remote captioning session.

Objectives:

  • Ensure delegates understand best set up and potential problems.
  • Educate deaf people and hearing colleagues on communication tactics in captioned meetings.

To find out more about our training courses contact us.

Communicating with deaf and hard of hearing people

(recommend half day)

Aim: to help you understand best practice for communicating with deaf people, and so avoid loss of business or staff.

Objectives:

  • Help delegates understand the challenges deafness causes to a person’s life.
  • Explore communication choices available to deaf people.
  • Review hearing aids, induction loops and cochlear implants.
  • Discuss and practise lip reading and communication tactics.

To find out more about our training courses contact us.

Advanced communication with deaf and deafblind people

(full day, including assessment)

Aim: to help you understand the challenges of deafblindness and teach a range of communication methods.

Objectives:

  • Help delegates understand how to manage environmental and other factors for successful communication with deafblind people.
  • Teach delegates to use a range of communication methods and tactics for successful communication with deafblind people.

To find out more about our training courses contact us.

Accessibility consultancy

As well as deaf awareness training courses we also offer a consultancy service designed to support your organisation to make your business accessible to disabled people.

Led by highly-experienced consultants our service enables you to maximise the business opportunities offered by equal access, including recruiting and retaining talented disabled employees, attracting disabled customers, and ensuring you comply with disability laws.

To find out more contact us.

Careers guidance and consultancy

Our experienced and certified careers consultants can help you to discover the career path you are meant to follow. We have a passion for what we do and can help you build your confidence and improve your networking skills. With our personal experience of hearing loss, we truly understand the needs of deaf employees and graduates.

To find out more contact us.

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