This weeks podcast delves into what businesses and organisations need to consider when employing a deaf person and what the experience can be like for a deaf job-seeker.

This week, Victoria is out of the office so Debbie and Alice run amok with the microphone and coffee machine (shhh don't tell Victoria).  They discuss Alice's recent Uni success, BSL exams and the importance of using qualified interpreters.

This week, you get the chance to meet the lovely Alice on her welcome to terptree and podcast debut!

Alice talks about her studies on the TAEDS (Theatre, Education and Deaf Studies) course at Reading, the feeling of learning sign language as being a 'calling', and about what she learnt from attending a super cool event that she had the privilege of attending yesterday.

Following on from last weeks podcast, Victoria and Debbie re-tell stories that highlight how people deal with situations and how that could make people feel.  The key message is to try something rather than do nothing!

In our fourth podcast, Victoria and Debbie spend our time stuck in London traffic discussing what can happen when we communicate with someone where spoken English isn’t their first language, how regional accents and even beards can play a part in communicating with a deaf person (back on ourhome turf, my Saarrf London accent coming out gets a well-timed mention) as well as the London traffic!

With Deaf Awareness Week upon us - this weeks podcast  sees Victoria and Debbie discussing Paddy Ladd's concept of Deafhood and the differences of the medical and social model of deafness.

Victoria and Debbie discuss what inspires people, what may stop them from achieving success, what are the key attributes of successful people and how this can be mirrored within the deaf community.

Welcome to teptree's first podcast - an insight into discussions that happen here at terptree HQ!

Join Victoria and Debbie from team terptree discussing the benefits of learning about deaf culture when you are learning sign language - even at Level 1 in British Sign Language.