This course has been designed for people living and working in the UK. There are also modules for people living and working in Wales, specific to language.

Course curriculum

    1. A message from your instructor

    2. How to use this course

    3. Before we begin

    4. Your Experience of Sensory Loss: Survey

    5. After this Course

    1. What we mean by Sensory Loss

    2. Sensory Loss broken down

    3. Why is this important?

    4. Terminology

    5. Visual Impairment Terminology

    6. Deaf and Hard of Hearing Terminology

    7. DeafBlind Terminology

    8. What is Sensory Loss Summary

    9. Test: What is Sensory Loss?

    10. Appropriate Language Pledge

    1. Causes of Sensory Loss

    2. Causes of Visual Impairment

    3. Causes of Deafness and Hearing Loss

    4. Causes of DeafBlindness or Dual Sensory Loss

    5. Identifying the signs of Sensory Loss

    6. Sandra's Story

    7. Test: What causes Sensory Loss?

    1. What are the indicators of Sensory Loss

    2. Indicators of Visual Impairment

    3. Indicators of Deafness and Hearing Loss

    4. Indicators of Dual Sensory Loss

    5. Test: Indicators of Sensory Loss

    1. What does Visual Impairment mean?

    2. What does it mean to be Blind?

    3. What does it mean to be Partially Sighted?

    4. When it comes to being Blind or Partially Sighted

    5. The VI Point Of View

    6. VI Simulation

    7. VI Facts and Statistics

    8. Visual Impairment: Communication and Access

    9. Communication and Access: Things to consider

    10. Communication and Access: What can you or organisations do?

    11. Test: Visual Impairment

    1. What does Deaf and Hearing Loss mean?

    2. What is Hearing Loss?

    3. What is Mild, Moderate, Severe and Profound Hearing Loss?

    4. The difference between deaf and big D Deaf?

    5. Big D/deaf?

    6. I am Simon

    7. What is Tinnitus?

    8. Supporting someone with Tinnitus

    9. How do we hear?

    10. How the ear works

    11. Hearing Loss Facts and Statistics

    12. Hearing Loss: Communication and Access

    13. Communication and Access: Common Problems

    14. Communication and Access: What can you or organisations do?

    15. British Sign Language (BSL)

    16. BSL: Basic and everyday signs

    17. BSL: Basic and everyday signs - Greetings

    18. BSL: Basic and everyday signs - Sensory Loss signs

    19. BSL: Basic and everyday signs - Numbers

    20. BSL: Basic and everyday signs - Colours and Shade

    21. BSL: The Alphabet

    22. BSL: Here in Wales

    23. IAC: The Welsh Alphabet

    24. BSL Alphabet Test

About this course

  • £19.99
  • 77 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Course Accessibility

This course is in English, BSL and has an audio provision

  • Written English Language

  • Audio for students who have a Visual impairment, or have an additional learning or literacy need

  • British Sign Language for Deaf BSL users.

  • Mae'r cwrs hwn ar gael yn Gymraeg

This course is provided