Deaf Awareness Training

High-quality, tailor-made, professional training courses to enable workers in residential homes and day centres to:

Understand how having a hearing loss affects people, practically and emotionally.
Improve communication, inclusion, access and quality of life for the people in their care.

"Hearing Matters in Care" training courses provide staff and management with:

• A temporary personal experience of hearing loss
• Appreciation of how deafness can affect behaviour
• Linking deafness with dementia
• Knowledge of how to recognise the signs of hearing loss
• Use of hearing aids to gain a better understanding of the difficulties of adjusting to amplified and artificial sound
• Experience in using equipment that can help residents to participate in activities better
• Skills in clear communication with deaf people
• Hands-on experience with equipment such as alerting devices and personal television amplifiers.