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Specialist workers can give advice and contacts for:
- British Sign Language (BSL)
- Sign Supported English (SSE)
- Finger Spelling Signed English (SE)
- Total Communication (TC)
- Cued Speech Lip Reading
Sign language interpreters are fluent in BSL , SSE and English. This means they can communicate with you and for you.
Information about interpreters is available from our specialist social workers or the Action on Hearing Loss website.
If you want to learn BSL , contact your local college for a prospectus.
Equipment that we can show you include:
- Clocks
- Doorbells
- Alarms
- Alert Phone
- Ringing phone
- Speech television
- Video theatre
- Meeting – loop system
To get a hearing aid, digital hearing aid or cochlear implant, go to your doctor. They will refer you to an Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant.
There is no cost for your assessment. Other costs depend on what equipment you might need.
There is no charge for lip reading classes in Somerset, but the costs for sign language classes may vary depending on the type of sign language you wish to learn.