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Gloucestershire Deaf Association

Gloucestershire Deaf Association (GDA) is a charity which provides practical and emotional support to children, young people and adults living in Gloucestershire who are deaf, hard of hearing or deafened. GDA provide services which aim to enable a person to live confidently with their deafness.

GDA offer costed, bespoke, in-person training in understanding deafness which is delivered by a deaf trainer. Training can be delivered to businesses, groups or individuals. The training provides practical steps on enhancing services to help meet equality and diversity responsibilities to deaf and hard of hearing people.

GDA offer both a half-day and all-day training course:

Half-day:

  • Pre-lingual deafness
  • Becoming deaf later in life
  • Sign-language & lipreading taster
  • How to use British Sign Language interpreters

All-day:

  • Pre-lingual deafness
  • Cultural deafness
  • Becoming deaf later in life
  • Sign-language & in-depth lipreading taster
  • How to use British Sign Language interpreters