Deaf – Deaf Friendly Ltd.

BSL Taster Sessions and Deaf Awareness Training Receive Great Feedback

Founded by Sarah Lawrence in 1999, Deaf Friendly Limited has been delivering Deaf Awareness Training and BSL Taster sessions for over 24 years.

Informed by her lived experience and fuelled by a positive attitude to finding solutions, Deaf Friendly’s BSL taster sessions and deaf awareness training focus on positive outcomes and enhancing quality of life for deaf people and their loved ones. Despite running training sessions for nearly a quarter of a century, Deaf Friendly continues to evolve, ensuring training is relevant to everyday work and social life, embracing the technological advances that have benefitted deaf life. This attitude to fine-tuning and remaining relevant drives course design, and testimonials from courses last week alone are testament to our delivery:

‘The training team’ were so informative about how deaf/hard of hearing navigate everyday life. Very pleased I went on the training.
‘The training team’ were fab. They were so clear, concise and engaging, it made for easy learning. They clearly exposed our societal and unconscious bias – which is shameful to admit. More of this humanitarian learning opportunities are needed across all of our communities, not just the workplace. Thanks for this opportunity.
I found the course very interesting and found ‘the trainer’ to be a very inspirational, strong lady who has overcome many barriers during her lifetime. She is very passionate about trying to enlighten and change peoples perceptions about being around and engaging with people with varying degrees of hearing difficulties. Well done to you both – it was very informative!
It was brilliant.
I just wanted to say a big thank you for teaching us those basics today. It was intense but I learnt so much.

Thank you to those who entrust us to deliver training and giving us the opportunity to prevent isolation in work, at home and generally in life.

Deaf Friendly Limited Acquires SLFirst Deaf Magazine

On April 1st, 2023 Deaf Friendly Limited acquired the SLFirst online Deaf Magazine. Whilst still read by people from all over the world, the SLFirst magazine had been inactive for some years. The magazine is now called Deaf Friendly Magazine. It will remain as a FREE to access magazine, and will continue to share information and stories linked to deaf life, sport, entertainment and education. As most of the services Deaf Friendly Limited offers are linked to adult and child education, the education section of the magazine will be the most active section of the magazine.

Published articles will remain of interest to deaf and hard of hearing readers, parents and guardians of deaf children, educators and employers of deaf people.

Commenting on the acquisition, Cardiff based Deaf Friendly Limited owner and Director Sarah Lawrence said, “The SLFirst Magazine became popular across the world in a matter of months, and it is of great sadness that insufficient time meant that nothing was published for some time. With Deaf Friendly Limited now taking over the magazine, we hope to keep anyone interested in deafness updated with the latest and most important information, with short, sharp and focused articles. SLFirst remains the only magazine in the world that is both written and signed, and under the new title, Deaf Friendly Magazine, we intend to continue that tradition, enabling language equality by interested parties.”