Promoting Deaf Issues is a charity (Registered Charity number 1115671) and supports Manchester Centre for Deaf Studies and Deafness Matters to run courses related to deafness and hearing loss.
Promoting Deaf Issues also supports an information website called Deaf Strategies (details below) which aims to enable deaf people and their friends, families, work colleagues, etc, to manage living with a hearing loss.
Manchester Centre for Deaf Studies (MCDS)
www.manchesterdeafstudies.org
Manchester Centre for Deaf Studies runs:
- 2 Lipreading classes
- Deaf Awareness Courses
The website also has information on lipreading classes in the Greater Manchester area.
Deafness Matters
www.deafnessmatters.org
Deafness Matters runs:
- Deaf Awareness Courses
As you may be aware, under the Equality Act 2010 all organisations and service providers are expected to make reasonable adjustments to allow Deaf, Deafened, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind people the same access to their services as hearing people.
Courses can be tailored to suit your requirements e.g. you may have a deaf or hard of hearing employee, or want your staff to be able to communicate clearly with deaf and hard of hearing customers. All courses are taught by a hearing impaired tutor so you can start practicing skills learnt on the course straight away.
The information website: Deaf Strategies
www.deafstrategies.org
Promoting Deaf Issues supports the website www.deafstrategies.org. This website aims to provide information and strategies found useful by people with a hearing loss. It is hoped this information will enable deaf people and their friends, families and work colleagues, etc, to manage living with a hearing loss.
There are lots of tips and strategies for situations that hard of hearing people can often find difficult. There are currently 8 chapters as follows:
1. General information – this includes information on hearing loss, deafness and hearing aids.
2. Family and visitors – this includes ideas on how to get co-operation from family and friends and how to arrange things to suit your hearing loss. It provides useful ideas for your family on how to make life easier and more pleasant for everyone.
3. Travel – this includes information on planning in advance and tips for various modes of travel.
4. Crowded rooms – this includes situations such as meetings, restaurants, pubs, dinner parties. Most hard of hearing people have real problems with background noise. This chapter is helpful in this respect.
5. Out of doors – this includes tips on conversing in the open air and some practical safety tips.
6. Environmental aids and strategies and Hearing Dogs for deaf people – this chapter gives ideas on things like knowing when you’ve got a visitor at the door, using the telephone, listening to the television and radio, etc.
7. Miscellaneous – this chapter includes information on tips that people have found useful when shopping, at work, at church, the theatre, swimming baths, etc.
8. Useful organisations and websites and sources of helpful advice – links and contact details for a variety of organisations that provide services for deaf and hard of hearing people
How can I use this website?
- Browse the sections that you think may be useful to you.
- Adapt the suggestions to your own needs.
- Remember that what might work for one person might not work for another.
- Ignore suggestions which don’t appeal to you.
- You might find it helpful to list the ideas you feel will help you in the order of your preference.
- You can always try one course of action and if that fails, try another.