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Communicator-Guides

Deafblind communicator-guide: a professional who acts as the eyes and ears of the deafblind person including ensuring that communication is clear.

— NHS England

Communicator-Guides work with Deafblind people within their daily lives, enabling them to access services, society and their local community by breaking down barriers caused by a dual-sensory loss.

They do this by meeting individual needs in communication, access to information and mobility with an enablement focus and providing them with choice and control whenever possible.

All Communicator-Guides at DBE must achieve the RQF Signature Level 2 Communicator-Guide qualification before they can begin working with us. This ensures that all DBE Communicator-Guides are trained in line with the Care Act 2014 and are trusted for safe guiding and proficient at communicating via clear speech, deafblind manual and block alphabet.

hands on sse and lip reading

If you are interested in receiving communicator-guide support, or know somebody that is, please contact us and enquire about setting up a service with our admin team. Our admin team can also offer advice on acquiring funding for this service, as we regularly work in partnership with local authorities.

Why choose DBE?​

DBE has contracts for the provision of deafblind interpreters and communicator-guides with hospitals such as Addenbrookes, Papworth, Southend, Moorfields, Newcastle and surrounding hospitals, as well as contracts with a range of NHS Trusts and NHS England.

Over the last 16 years, DBE has been working with the following Local Authorities growing Communicator-Guide provision for the most complex deafblind people in Peterborough, Essex, Coventry, Southampton, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, with many more one off bookings. DBE operate funding by ISF's, Direct Payments, Self funding and contractual agreements.

We are subcontracted by many BSL agencies such as Language Empire, DA Languages, Language Line, Language Shop, and Cintra for our ongoing high standards in deafblind communication.

Providing a Communicator-Guide means the deafblind person receives full access to information, communication and mobility needs and become an equal citizen in society.

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