Affiliations
RAD - Royal Association for Deaf People
We collaborated with the Royal Association for Deaf People (one of the leading deaf charities in the UK) to ensure we made a communication handbook WITH deaf experts and deaf families, FOR deaf families. We attended a deaf awareness course which helped us become deaf aware and we ensured we included deaf people’s opinions and expertise throughout the whole development of the handbook. The RAD provided us with accurate maternity BSL translations, as well as videos with further explanations. We are so grateful for all their help with the production of this tool! Thank you!
Hybrid Industries
We worked closely with Matthew at Hybrid Industries to develop our BSL illustrations. Matthew drew them directly from the BSL video translations provided by RAD. Matthew also helped us design our website and layout inside the book. Thank you for all your help and support!!!
Marcel Hirshman
We worked with Marcel Hirshman (a qualified BSL teacher, translator, deaf person and expert in BSL) to liaise with Matthew at Hybrid Industries to ensure the BSL illustrations were accurately presented. He also helped us with our translations list, giving us a fantastic insight in terms of useability. Marcel is legendary and we are so grateful for his advice and expertise whilst creating this handbook.
Thank you Marcel!
Language Line
We purchased many of the languages used in the books from Language Line, a translation service used in many NHS trusts nationwide. All of our languages have undergone vigorous tests to ensure accuracy.
With thanks...
We also want to thank the amazing Mary for the Romanian translations. We are so grateful for all of her hard work and time. Mary owns a bakery in Manchester which is awesome. Click the button to visit her webpage!!