Understanding Deaf Awareness. Our blog post this week focuses on assumptions we make about D/deaf people and how effective deaf awareness training can help us better communicate. Always good to check…… The other week, when returning to teach at one of my client’s, I discovered a pair of old, well- loved, but worn, shoes I was wearing, had come to the end of their wearable life. Rather embarrassingly, the said shoes gave up the will to function in the middle of class whilst teaching the BSL alphabet. One of my deaf learners, froze in the middle of earnestly spelling ‘I’, stared at my feet and informed me “your shoe is flapping!” much to the amusement of everyone around us. Hindsight is a marvellous thing; I knew I shouldn’t have ignored that little nagging thought at the back of my head to double check they were ok before I wore them. A shoe cull post lockdown was indeed long overdue. I guess the moral of the story might be to always check something’s ok before assuming it is. However, there is much more to this story than meets the eye. Read More... https://www.studysharpe.co.uk/post/always-good-to-check Find out how Study Sharpe can help your business become more inclusive and remove barriers both internally and externally with their Fully supported online teaching and remote learning courses for teams and individuals. http://studysharpe.co.uk