Deaf Awareness: Working and Communicating Well with Deaf People (online course)

In this course you'll learn about:

• the importance of deaf awareness, being deaf, different experiences of deafness and hearing loss: you’ll experience different perspectives of deafness to enable you to understand how it affects individuals
• a history of deafness: we look back through history and consider how attitudes and policies impact on deaf people, then and now
• Deaf culture and sign language: you’ll gain an insight into unique communities who identify not as a group with a disability but as cultural minorities with their own languages
• equal access: we look at why equal access is important, the effectiveness of lipreading, guidance on good communication and adjustments related to deafness
• some commonly available communication aids and support - from qualified communication-support professionals, to technology such as real-time speech-to-text

You‘ll be accompanied on your journey through the course by four people who share their experiences of being D/deaf and hard of hearing.