Half/Full day Deaf Awareness Workshop & Taster options
At Study Sharpe we pride ourselves on delivering fun, exciting and thought-provoking taster sessions at your place of work or within your community group.
All we need is a group of keen, willing attendees to participate in our practical based activities and insightful debates and discussions as part of the training day with us.
For your convenience, we offer short 2-hour tasters or both half day, 3-hour sessions or full day, 6-hour sessions, with comfort/lunch breaks included on a day and time that suits your group or service need.
Each of our taster/workshops are tailored to meet your needs; whether that is your staff team needs or alternatively, within a community group providing an informative and interesting guest speaker option for your yearly schedule of events, to share with your members.
Emm Sharpe is an experienced Deaf Awareness public speaker, delivering webinars and interactive talks both online and face to face. Not only is she a registered speaker at the WI, she has also spoken regularly at various U3A and other online and face to face Community based groups/clubs.
Some of the topics we may cover at a taster/workshop are as follows (N.B, this list is not exhaustive and can be tailor-made to specific requirements):
- A little about communication and an insight into Deaf Culture
- What is British Sign Language (BSL)?
- Is Sign Language Universal?
- Deaf Awareness Seasonal ‘Myth Buster’ Quiz
- ‘Watch my lips’ : an activity and discussion around the challenges of lip reading.
- Film clip/discussion.
- BSL Alphabet taster.
- The role and rules of fingerspelling.
- Some useful basic Meet and Greet phrases.
- Communication strategies: Dos and Don'ts.
- Changing the COMMUNICATION experience.
If you would like to talk to us more about our engaging and informative tasters and workshops please do contact us, we are here to help and support you.