- Aim: Lobby two high street retailers to encourage the consumer electronics industry to provide guidance to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing make informed choices about accessible equipment.
- Impact: A number of approaches to high street retailers failed to persuade them to do more to promote the accessibility features of the products they already retail. We will continue to push them to do more and will consider alternative ways to bring about this much needed result.
- Aim: The above aim and impact is available in BSL
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- Aim: Deliver deaf awareness or start to sign training to 6,000 individual employers and service providers to improve access for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Impact: More than 6,500 people have received our deaf awareness, disability and deaf awareness or start to sign training, helping to improve accessibility in all types of organisations both in the public and private sector.
We introduced Training Access Points allowing individuals the facility to easily access training and successfully held 25 events throughout the UK.
- Aim: The above aim and impact is available in BSL
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Lorraine's story
Lorraine is Practice Manager at a GP surgery in Craigavon, Northern Ireland where staff have taken part in deaf awareness and Start to Sign training.
Lorraine talks about the RNID Louder than Words Charter and the range of measures taken to ensure that accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing patients is considered throughout the daily routine of the surgery. The practice has also been put forward for a Management in Practice Award.
"We felt that it had such terrific results for the patients and for ourselves." Lorraine
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