Following Deaf Awareness Week 2010, Noteable are proud to announce their newly developed captioning software "Stage Captions 1.0" which will greatly aid the accessibility of theatre and performance captioning across the country. This captioning software has been specially developed to relay output to LCD screens, making it unique in current theatre captioning provision.
Time is ticking! The deadline to get your nominations in for the Signature Annual Awards 2010 is midnight tonight. National Award categories include the Joseph Maitland Robinson Award, Teacher of the Year, Learner of the Year, Young Learner of the Year, Centre of the Year, Communication Professional of the Year and Organisational Achievement of the Year.
Popular talks, lectures or demonstrations at the Victoria and Albert Museum are sometimes translated into British Sign Language (BSL) or are given in Sign Supported English (SSE) by deaf lecturers.
On Friday 18th June, a group of 9 BSL tutors from across Northern Ireland took part in a Signature Level 2 Training Course held in Belfast.
Michael Parkinson is still haunted by the isolation experienced by his grandparents, who were both profoundly deaf. The chat-show host says we must all do more to help the hard of hearing.
Linlithgow is to be made Scotland's first deaf- aware town under an innovative new project run by the national school for the deaf.
Tourist attractions, shops and businesses across the West Lothian town are being encouraged to become more aware of the needs of the deaf under the new initiative.
Date: Saturday 27th November 2010
Time: 7pm till 2am, awards begin at 8:30pm
Venue: Wembley National Stadium, London HA9 0WS
Signature is looking for people interested in becoming Assessors for our Level 1 Award in British Sign Language (BSL) qualification. The primarily role will be to assess BSL1 video-recorded assessments within a timescale.
Deaf Billy Elliot is a Generation Game night with lots of fun guaranteed!
Join us as we celebrate Deaf Awareness Week!
Be inspired by a musical extravaganza performed by talented deaf artists and musicians!
Deafinitely Theatre is holding a contest to find four deaf people for our playwright development programme, Deafinitely Creative.
We are very pleased to announce the new Signature Level 3 NVQ Certificate in British Sign Language (Ref: 500/9615/1) has been accredited by Ofqual. This is our first NVQ qualification on the QCF. It is available for teaching from 1 September 2010 and is fundable as a full Level 3 Qualification.
We can now share with you the new Level 3 draft qualification specification.