BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:880@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T123000 DTSTAMP:20220110T122612Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/deaf-awareness-tg2-deaf-2/ SUMMARY:Deaf Awareness Training with Dot Sign Language [TG2/Awareness] DESCRIPTION:*THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. NEW BOOKINGS WILL BE ADDED TO A WAITIN G LIST* \n\nOnline Deaf Awareness Training with Dot Sign Language\n\nDot ’s thought provoking and interactive online Deaf Awareness training sess ions are great\nfun\, providing attendees with the tools to improve intera ction with deaf people internally and\nexternally\, breaking down communic ation barriers.\n\nThis session will cover discussions regarding the preva lence of deafness in the U.K\, Deaf issues\, deaf culture and British Sign Language (BSL). We will provide practical steps to help attendees activel y promote engagement with BSL users ensuring accessibility\, and our ‘ha nds on’ session in our virtual breakout rooms provide attendees the oppo rtunity to learn basic fingerspelling and BSL relevant to your organisatio n.\n\nDot's teachers are all Deaf BSL users. They are the best people to t each their language and answer your questions from personal experience. Th ey will teach the session in BSL – so you can immerse yourselves in sign language. We will provide an interpreter to voiceover the session and int erpret your questions.\n\nTrainer:\n\nKathleen Grehan\, Director\, Dot Sig n Language\n\nKathleen is a Deaf graduate of the social sciences and a qua lified teacher of British Sign Language with a particular interest in BSL linguistics. Since starting Dot Sign Language in 2011 she has made it her mission to deliver first class and inspiring lessons in BSL and Deaf Aware ness. A priority for her has always been to make the learning process enjo yable\, as much a social event as an educational experience. Kathleen also enjoys going out to local schools and youth groups to give them a taste o f BSL\, Deaf awareness and Deaf culture. She strongly believes that we sho uld try and engage all young children and get them to learn this beautiful \, visual language. This way we can reduce that gap between Deaf and heari ng people and help eliminate social isolation of Deaf people of all ages.\ n\nApart from her teaching duties\, Kathleen plays a full and active role in all aspects of Dot’s business. This includes marketing\, future plann ing\, finance\, website content and update and basic administration. A rel atively recent achievement that has excited her is the challenge of design ing her own curriculum and assessments in BSL\, to deliver a Stage 1 cours e to undergraduates and postgraduates at the University of Surrey. This ha s required her to bring BSL in line\, as far as possible\, with the eleven spoken languages in the program. BSL has quickly became a firm favourite with the students. Kathleen now delivers three Stage 1 courses each year a nd this year\, for the first time\, she was asked to deliver a Stage 2 cou rse.\n\nIn her previous career Kathleen has been a Disability/Deaf Campaig ner for four organisations: National Union of Students (NUS)\; RNID\, BDA and Disability Rights Commission (DRC) between October 2000 and September 2011. She is committed to equality and empowerment for D/deaf\, disabled a nd all diverse groups within society.\n\nCost\n£25.00 members\n£50.00 no n member institutions\n\nInformation for joining:\n\n This session is vir tual and will run via Zoom. Once your booking has been confirmed\, joining instructions will be emailed the day before the event.\n Electronic CPD attendance certificates can be provided on request. Please request via cpd 25@london.ac.uk\n\nCancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day\, the full fee will be charged.\n\n*THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. NEW BOOKIN GS WILL BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST* To book a place on the waiting list\, please use our online booking form\n\n \; CATEGORIES:cpd25 Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR