5 What to do next?

The image is of a deaf tutor working with a young child. The tutor is sat at a desk. On the other side of desk is the child who is sat on his mum’s lap. The tutor and the child are signing to one another.
Figure 12 Tutoring in BSL
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The image is of a deaf tutor working with a young child. The tutor is sat at a desk. On the other side of desk is the child who is sat on his mum’s lap. The tutor and the child are signing to one another.

Figure 12 Tutoring in BSL

Having understood the language difference and that BSL is a language in it’s own right, how do you use this information going forward?

Whether you work within the education sector, have a deaf employee or know someone who is deaf/hard of hearing, it would be good to take this knowledge with you.

Use it to help make communication easier and accessible to all. Far too many assume that a deaf person can read perfect English, including whatever jargon that is thrown at them. Please recognise that this is not always the case.

To offer you some further insight the following activities are a series of short scenarios to get you thinking of what you could do to help.

4.4 What’s the word order difference?

5.1 Supporting a deaf student