British Sign Language

British, yeah, BSL.

British Sign Language.

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BSL.

If you said to me, okay, what's going to be one of the hardest things that you could do in social care? It would be run social care in a foreign language, essentially.

But it's not like you can go to a country and recruit people who speak British Sign Language.

You're going to have to train your team and then keep them trained in that language.

How on earth are you going to do that?

So it's going to be a real treat to have them there.

And hopefully... a wide number of the deaf community are going to come along as well we've been really privileged to have met some very wonderful deaf people in Clare and they've all been so supportive of Porrick and trying to help him to learn Irish Sign Language because coming from Wales we learnt British Sign Language over there and we've had to learn a whole new language now and the deaf community have been absolutely amazing but the point is is The deaf community, they just want hearing and deaf people to be equal.

So we're hopefully building bridges between the deaf and the hearing communities and everybody can be equal.

Yeah,

And then we've got the skills for care, which is one of the most popular ones, because that's for people who want to get into the care industry who don't necessarily want to go through the academic route for that.

We've devised the British Sign Language.

We've got many new ones coming along.

So for us, it's about developing apprenticeships within industries because not everyone is great with pen and paper either, you know? So it's about giving young people that opportunity and also having direct contact with what young people do.

How can I write for the, the CIPD magazine if, you know, or People at Work magazine? So HR Magazine, I'm, I'm, I constantly get, uh, requests from HR Magazine.

I just posted, um, earlier this week actually, they, they wanted, there was a piece about HSBC being the first, um, to roll out sign, British Sign Language training to all their employees.

Mm.

So they just want, they were like, "Do you have any thoughts on this? Could you answer some?" Just by email.

And I think the unique thing about this podcast, this is the first podcast we've done with someone that was born deaf.

We've got a British Sign Language interpreter, Hannah, sat next to me over from Hammond Preet.

So This is going to be an interesting experience for me.

And I talked a bit myself over the years, people that know me know about my own issues with degenerative eye condition and basically going blind, which is how I ended up coming into this sector in the first place.

From soaring eagles to muddy earthworms, there are updates about wildlife you actually share a planet with.

And, for anyone who uses British Sign Language, there's a signed and subtitled News Round 2.

News that's meant for everyone.

That's worth a round of applause, with everyone, everywhere, in on it.

So, you know, by law, right, we have to have accessible performances.

You have to provide British sign language performances, captioned, touch tours, audio description.

Yeah.

right by law but then there are production companies that take that and then actually go further and i think uh like rsc the royal shakespeare company yeah um i would give a shout out to because their work around matilda is wonderful um you know they partner with uh companies that will come in and watch the shows before and actually say this is going to be quite triggering at this point or they'll do sonic stories so you can see the waveform of how loud particular points of the show are going to be visual stories they'll do touch tours now touch tours were typically kind of invented for blind people right so you can touch parts of the costume and the set so that when you're listening to the show you can hear kind of where they're going and you know that you felt that but also now for autistic people and neurodivergent people actually coming up and you know at Totoro for example some of that show can be quite scary And so feeling the set, talking to the actors and the

So audio description and BSL.

British Sign Language.

But the other reason is because audio description is also seen as a form of translation.

So audio description is the translation of the visual elements of something into something that's verbal.

A quick reminder that next week is this month's installment of the next 12 months of your translation career.

So if you're subscribed already, do enjoy that.

Otherwise, the next full episode will be with Ruth Hastings talking about her work as a British Sign Language interpreter.

I hope you can join us for that.

And so Tuesday evening, because normally the bookseller stuff I do is during the day on a Tuesday, but because of the bank holiday, it ended up being in the evening, so I couldn't come and do my video.

Wednesday, we had a British Sign Language course in the shop.

So I can now say my name.

Well done.