Level 3 Certificate for LSPs Working with Deaf & Deafblind People (Notetaking) – This course is for notetakers who either already hold the old CACDP Level 2 qualification or are registered with the National Register of Communication Professionals Working with Deaf People (NRCPD), but all have to reach Level 3 by 2010 in order to register. They will be the first in Scotland to achieve the new qualification.

a collaboration between
COMMTACS & Sign Language Interactions

Project management of a pilot training programme for NES. Pilot included Basic and Advanced Sensory Impairment Awareness & Communication Skills covering nine NHS Health Boards over a total of 7 days of training. Full evaluation report produced at completion of pilot.

Further to this piolot COMMTACS have been commissoined by NES to deliver 10 Sensory Impairment Awareness courses covering 8 NHS areas in mainland Scotland plus 3 courses taking place in Shetlands, Orkney and the Western Isles.

A series of deaf awareness and communication tactics short sessions for university lecturers, support staff and students. Courses covered communication barriers and tools that can be used to prevent and overcome these barriers and communication breakdowns.

Andy Irvine, Director of Commtacs, carried out research for the Dumfries & Galloway Deafness Partnership (DGDP) which was a collaboration between Cumbria Deaf Association & Dumfries & Galloway Society for the Deaf (now Deaf Vision) - the aim of the research was to:

- Identify unmet needs and service/support gaps of deaf adults and children
- Ensure that there is consultation and involvement of service users and community
- Identify funding sources for future projects and activities.

Project management and development of eLearning Sensory Impairment Awareness website. Working in collaboration with Signature and Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen).

Website includes videos of communication breakdowns & how to repair them, two-handed fingerspelling, deafblind manual & block alphabets, representations of visual impairments. Test Your Knowledge section - 12 multiple choice questions based on site content. Being launched shortly.

Provision of BSL video clips for the Forth Valley Sensory Centre web pages in collaboration with Sign Language Interactions

Filming, editing, keying and exporting as 'web-ready' BSL video clips for Signature's (CACDP) new web site .. launched January 2009.

Contact us for your Large Print and braille services. We can provide your documentation into accessible formats that are quality tested by visually impaired users.