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:1032@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260212T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260212T123000 DTSTAMP:20260127T091211Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/deaf-awareness-training-with-dot-sign -language-tg2-awareness-2026/ SUMMARY:Deaf Awareness Training with Dot Sign Language [TG2/Awareness] - FU LL DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n*THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL AND A WAITING LIST IS AVAILA BLE*\n\nOnline Deaf Awareness Training with Dot Sign Language\n\nDot’s t hought provoking and interactive online Deaf Awareness training sessions a re great\nfun\, providing attendees with the tools to improve interaction with deaf people internally and\nexternally\, breaking down communication barriers.\n\nThis session will cover discussions regarding the prevalence of deafness in the U.K\, deaf issues\, deaf culture and British Sign Langu age (BSL). We will provide practical steps to help attendees actively prom ote engagement with BSL users ensuring accessibility\, and our ‘hands on ’ session in our virtual breakout rooms provide attendees the opportunit y to learn basic fingerspelling and BSL relevant to your organisation.\n\n Dot's teachers are all Deaf BSL users. They are the best people to teach t heir language and answer your questions from personal experience. They wil l teach the session in BSL – so you can immerse yourselves in sign langu age. We will provide an interpreter to voiceover the session and interpret your questions.\n\nTrainer:\n\nKathleen Grehan\, Director\, Dot Sign Lang uage\n\nKathleen is a Deaf graduate of the social sciences and a qualified teacher of British Sign Language with a particular interest in BSL lingui stics. Since starting Dot Sign Language in 2011 she has made it her missio n to deliver first class and inspiring lessons in BSL and Deaf Awareness. A priority for her has always been to make the learning process enjoyable\ , as much a social event as an educational experience. Kathleen also enjoy s going out to local schools and youth groups to give them a taste of BSL\ , Deaf awareness and Deaf culture. She strongly believes that we should tr y and engage all young children and get them to learn this beautiful\, vis ual language. This way we can reduce that gap between Deaf and hearing peo ple and help eliminate social isolation of Deaf people of all ages.\n\nApa rt from her teaching duties\, Kathleen plays a full and active role in all aspects of Dot’s business. This includes marketing\, future planning\, finance\, website content and update and basic administration. A relativel y recent achievement that has excited her is the challenge of designing he r own curriculum and assessments in BSL\, to deliver a Stage 1 course to u ndergraduates and postgraduates at the University of Surrey. This has requ ired her to bring BSL in line\, as far as possible\, with the eleven spoke n languages in the program. BSL has quickly became a firm favourite with t he students. Kathleen now delivers three Stage 1 courses each year and thi s year\, for the first time\, she was asked to deliver a Stage 2 course.\n \nIn her previous career Kathleen has been a Disability/Deaf Campaigner fo r four organisations: National Union of Students (NUS)\; RNID\, BDA and Di sability Rights Commission (DRC) between October 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 memb er institutions\n\nInformation for joining:\n\n This session is virtual a nd will run via Zoom. Once your booking has been confirmed\, joining instr uctions will be emailed the day before the event.\n Electronic CPD attend ance certificates can be provided on request. Please request via cpd25@lon don.ac.uk\n\nCancellations less than one week before the event will be cha rged 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 AND A WAITING LIS T IS AVAILABLE* To book a place on the waiting list\, please use our onlin e booking form.\n\n \;\n\n \; CATEGORIES:cpd25 Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR