William Turner has been the Deaf Awareness Co-ordinator for DeafVision covering the whole of the county, for the last five years.  Partially deaf, William is a hearing aid user and a British Sign Language user.

As Co-ordinator he encourages organisations, small groups and individuals to invest in training sessions to learn about Deaf and hard of hearing people.

Deaf Awareness is designed to provide an understanding of deafness and to help hearing people to communicate effectively with those who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Deafness can affect:

Communication
Educational opportunities
Employment opportunities
Independence
Social life

We provide high quality, cost-effective training covering:

The impact of deafness
Levels of deafness
Common reactions to hearing loss - lipreading skills
Guide to beginning to use Sign Language
Deafblind Awareness
Gesture/facial expression/body language
Fingerspelling - Standard Manual Alphabet

We offer training sessions to suit individual needs from one hour to a full day and we are flexible as to venue.

You can come to us or we can come to you!

The Disability Discrimination Act puts a responsibility on organisations to offer equality of service for disabled people.

For more information contact:

William Turner, DeafVision, 41 Monkwray Court, Kells, Whitehaven CA28 9HD

Telephone/Textphone: 01946 852888.  Fax: 01946 852887