Feedback
A course held in North Wales:
"May I just say a huge 'thank you' on behalf of the dental
postgraduate department for coming with David and Lettie to
present this training day. It was one of the most useful courses
I've ever attended. You achieved an excellent speaker score and
stimulated the audience to produce an unusually high number of
comments, all positive.
On a personal note may I add that I found the day extremely
informative and you to be an inspirational speaker and an
excellent communicator. When I got home and talked about the
course with my children (16 and 13) I discovered that they had
already been taught the finger spelling alphabet both at school
and at Guides, and we've now all taught my partner. I also found
the advice to rephrase and write things down to assist with lip
reading/lip speaking very helpful, as well as the insights into what
hearing aids do (and don't do)!
• Finger spelling, lip reading and how to communicate better.
• Realising that wearing a hearing aid doesn't give the wearer total
hearing and learning the alphabet in hand signs.
• All of the course - it has made me think about my approach for
deaf awareness: excellent course.
• The speaker experiencing deafness first hand rather than giving
us second hand information. Excellent humourous course leaders
who effortlessly broke down any potential barriers and provided a
hugely useful, educational and inspiring day.
• Excellent speaker and content, with participation and appreciation
from deaf person's perspective."
A course held in Leeds:
"• Really good course, great speakers.... thank you
• The use of individuals who were actually deaf gave
the course far more relevance and meaning. great
course, great couple, really enjoyed it, thank you
• Two people who really put their heart and soul into everything
they do.
• I already make some allowances for my hard of hearing & deaf
patients but this course has given more confidence to try lip-speaking & finger spelling & I intend to use this in all my daily
activities as well as work.
• The most useful aspect of the course was the presenters one
profoundly deaf & the other hard of hearing so a personal
insight to their daily lives was very useful & inspiring, it was
reassuring that I'm already meeting the needs of my patients
but as I said before the day gave me extra skills & confidence
• Brilliant course I learnt a lot and it completely changed my
perception of the deaf
• A very informative course and the fact that it was presented
by people who had hearing impairment and therefore
understood first hand from the personal aspect what the
difficulties are for patients was an added bonus.
• The suggestion of using a mobile phone to contact patients
who's appointments had to be cancelled at short notice was
very helpful.
• Will suggest a text service available
• I will encourage other members of staff to go on the course
• The speakers were excellent, thoroughly enjoyed the course,
it will change my practice for the better, Thank you."
Kirkham Princes Trust and Lancs Fire and Rescue:
"This course will definitely help me as a future social worker and it made
me think the terminology I should be using when writing a report as well
as communicating with someone that finds it difficult to hear. Taught me
that it is important to treat people as an individual and not to generalise".
"I enjoyed practising lipreading and realising how many different things
can affect your ability to understand"
"Heightened my awareness of how I can improve my communication"
"All very informative and open - made me more aware of importance of
protecting my own hearing and how to act around deaf people who are
HOH. I will be recommending this course".
"There are different forms and types of deafness (Deaf and deaf)".
"Excellent, informative course. Really fun and learned a lot. Thank you
Suzie J ".
