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:982@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T130000 DTSTAMP:20240820T150016Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/deaf-awareness-training-with-dot-sign -language-tg2-awareness-2/ SUMMARY:Deaf Awareness Training with Dot Sign Language [TG2/Awareness] DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n \;\n\nOnline Deaf Awareness Training with Dot S ign Language\n\nDot’s thought provoking and interactive online Deaf Awar eness training sessions are great\nfun\, providing attendees with the tool s to improve interaction with deaf people internally and\nexternally\, bre aking down communication barriers.\n\nThis session will cover discussions regarding the prevalence of deafness in the U.K\, deaf issues\, deaf cultu re and British Sign Language (BSL). We will provide practical steps to hel p attendees actively promote engagement with BSL users ensuring accessibil ity\, and our ‘hands on’ session in our virtual breakout rooms provide attendees the opportunity to learn basic fingerspelling and BSL relevant to your organisation.\n\nDot's teachers are all Deaf BSL users. They are t he best people to teach their language and answer your questions from pers onal experience. They will teach the session in BSL – so you can immerse yourselves in sign language. We will provide an interpreter to voiceover the session and interpret your questions.\n\nTrainer:\n\nKathleen Grehan\, Director\, Dot Sign Language\n\n\n\nKathleen is a Deaf graduate of the so cial sciences and a qualified teacher of British Sign Language with a part icular interest in BSL linguistics. Since starting Dot Sign Language in 20 11 she has made it her mission to deliver first class and inspiring lesson s in BSL and Deaf Awareness. A priority for her has always been to make th e learning process enjoyable\, as much a social event as an educational ex perience. Kathleen also enjoys going out to local schools and youth groups to give them a taste of BSL\, Deaf awareness and Deaf culture. She strong ly believes that we should 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 hearing people and help eliminate social isolation of De af 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 m arketing\, future planning\, finance\, website content and update and basi c administration. A relatively recent achievement that has excited her is the challenge of designing her own curriculum and assessments in BSL\, to deliver a Stage 1 course to undergraduates and postgraduates at the Univer sity of Surrey. This has required her to bring BSL in line\, as far as pos sible\, with the eleven spoken languages in the program. BSL has quickly b ecame a firm favourite with the students. Kathleen now delivers three Stag e 1 courses each year and this year\, for the first time\, she was asked t o deliver a Stage 2 course.\n\nIn her previous career Kathleen has been a Disability/Deaf Campaigner for four organisations: National Union of Stude nts (NUS)\; RNID\, BDA and Disability Rights Commission (DRC) between Octo ber 2000 and September 2011. She is committed to equality and empowerment for D/deaf\, disabled and all diverse groups within society.\n\nCost\n£25 .00 members\n£50.00 non member institutions\n\nInformation for joining:\n \n This session is virtual and will run via Zoom. Once your booking has b een confirmed\, joining instructions will be emailed the day before the ev ent.\n Electronic CPD attendance certificates can be provided on request. Please request via cpd25@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\nTo book a pl ace\, please use our online booking form. Please remembe to include your p urchase order number if needed. CATEGORIES:cpd25 Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR