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Are you interested in learning about benefits, deaf rights
and healthy living?
There are lots of specialist centres that provide training for
d/Deaf people. These include:
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Deafax can provide training for young deaf people and adults
including:
- Keeping yourself safe from danger
- Deaf rights
- Benefits entitlements
- Speaking with confidence
- Assertiveness skills
- Interview skills
- Computer skills.
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City Lit has a Centre for Deaf People that offers professional
training, continuing education or support for students in Higher or
Further Education.
Kent Adult Education have a range of courses on all kinds of
topics and subjects from healthy living to pottery.
Support can be given to you when accessing these courses. More
more information can be found within the
Adult
Education website.
You may want to contact your local
Kent Learning Champions where trained volunteers can help you
find information on courses, provide you with contacts for advice
and guidance or show you how to get involved in volunteering.
Deaf awareness
d/Deaf and Deafblind awareness is about understanding:
- Use of language commonly used to describe deafness and
deafblindness, and deaf and deafblind people and what is
appropriate and inappropriate.
- How to communicate successfully.
- Aspects of the Deaf Community and their culture.
This information is meant as a taster to help you understand
some of the basics that may be required when working with d/Deaf
and Deafblind colleagues or service users.
Please
read the Deaf and Deafblind awareness tutorial.
Information is provided on this page about training courses that
are available to you or your organisation.
Further information about can be found on the following websites
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- SignStation has video, interactive exercises,
pictures, graphics and explanations about BSL and dDeaf people at
work
- Sign Post
BSL can help you to learn how to finger spell or learn a sign a
day - and get the news in BSL.
Deaf awareness training providers
Hi Kent
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Hi Kent provides training for frontline staff and compliance
with the Disability Discrimination Act. They offer an intensive
half day course providing background knowledge to assist frontline
staff offering services to deaf and hearing impaired customers or
clients.
They also offer training for care staff, which is an intensive
one day course providing background knowledge and practical skills
appropriate to care of the elderly with a hearing loss.
RNID (link
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- Deaf and disability awareness training
Their course aims to raise awareness of what is meant by
disability. Delegates will leave with an appreciation of the issues
involved.
- Deaf awareness training
This course aims to raise awareness of the barriers faced by deaf
and hard of hearing people, and develops an understanding of how to
overcome them.
Private organisations
Sense-ability (link opens in a new window)
- Work on making communication skills with deaf people more
effective
- Be introduced to British Sign Language
- Discuss the barriers deaf people face in different
scenarios
- Learn how to work with language service professionals (i.e.
interpreters)
- Learn how the Disability Discrimination Act affects the rights
of deaf people
- Be introduced to aspects of deaf culture and
community
DeafWorks (link opens in a new window)
Deaf Works courses provide people with a greater understanding
of deafness. You are taught to understand the different types of
deafness and to be able to negotiate the most appropriate means of
communication. You should have an awareness of the constraints of
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