Code: RT05
The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) makes it clear that every organisation that provides services to the public must provide that information in a variety of formats so that it is accessible to disabled people.
The Department of Health guidance also makes it clear that local authorities have a duty to provide "information about services in formats and methods that are accessible to deafblind people".
The guidance goes on to list possible methods of communication as:
- Clear speech and lip reading
- British Sign Language or a sign system e.g. Sign Supported English
- Visual Frame Signing, Close-up Signing, Hands-on Signing
- Braille and Moon
- Block Alphabet
- Deafblind Manual Alphabet
- Note writing
- Electronic communication (with Braille output or large font on screen)
- Individual's own personal signs
- Tadoma (gaining additional information from vibrations of the speaker's vocal chords)
- a combination of any of the above
