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

Programme Structure

Courses include:

• 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.