Hard of Hearing Awareness Training sessions follow similar objectives as Deaf Awareness Training.
These sessions are specifically tailored to address awareness gaps and effective strategies to improve communication and interactions and work culture.
Awareness training will help your workplace and teams to:
- Understand what it is like to live with hearing loss
- Learn about hearing aids and assistive equipment for hard of hearing people
- Develop communication tactics and strategies
- Identify situations in your organisation where people who are deaf or have hearing loss might face communication barriers
- Establish ways to improve accessibility in your business drawing on the deaf awareness information provided
- Develop a range of communication methods used by people who are deaf or have hearing loss
- Demonstrate confidence in communicating with people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
Contact your local Deaf society for customised hard-of-hearing awareness training:
- Expression Australia (VIC)
- Deaf Can:Do (SA)
- Deaf Services (QLD)
- Access Plus (WA)
- Deaf Australia (certain states)
- National Interpreting & Communication Services (Australia wide)
- Sign Language Australia (SA)
- The Deaf Society (NSW)
