Applied Sign · off the pathway
Sign language, built around the work you already do.
Five short workshops for one profession at a time. No prerequisite, no sequence, no need to have signed before. You can take one and never take another.
The five workshops
Each one is taught by a Deaf instructor and ends in practice with Deaf participants, not a role-play. Sign for Care runs first — it is the one that changes the most for the most people.
AS · CARE
Sign for Care
Psychologists, therapists, doctors, nurses, social workers. A Deaf patient who cannot talk to you cannot describe a symptom or consent to a treatment.
Session by session
- Your Deaf patients — what happens to them now
- First contact — attention, consent, the room
- Body, symptoms, pain
- Feelings and mental states
- The words that don't exist yet
- Practice clinic with Deaf participants
AS · STAGE
Sign for Performers
Actors, dancers, directors, drama students. Craft training, not accessibility training — spatial storytelling, facial precision, and the visual vernacular.
Session by session
- The body as language
- Placing people, objects and time in space
- Face and role shift
- Classifiers and transformation
- Rhythm and silence
- Devised piece and showing
AS · CLASS
Sign for Teaching
Teachers, school staff, university faculty. Structure a lesson so it can be followed with the sound off — everyone benefits, not only the student who needed it.
Session by session
- The Deaf student in a hearing classroom
- Classroom signs — instruction, routine, praise
- Getting and holding visual attention
- Subject vocabulary, and how to build more
- Plan an inclusive lesson, then teach it
AS · HOME
Sign for Parents
Hearing parents of babies and toddlers, 6 to 24 months. Babies control their hands long before their voice — sign gives them a way to tell you what they want.
Session by session
- Why signing early works, and how to start
- First signs — milk, eat, more, finished, sleep
- Comfort — hurt, tired, scared, love
- Play, books and daily routine
- Keeping it going, and meeting the community
AS · WORK
Sign at Work
Front-line staff in banks, retail, hospitals and hospitality. Four sessions, on your site, ending in live service practice with Deaf visitors.
Session by session
- Your Deaf customers and what happens to them now
- First contact — attention, writing, gesture
- The forty signs for your sector
- Live service practice with Deaf visitors
NOT SURE
Which one is yours?
Most people pick by job title and that is usually right. If two of them look like you, take Care or Stage first — they carry the most that transfers to everything else.
Looking for the full language instead of one profession? The pathway runs from first conversation to published work.
See the pathwayBook a workshop, or bring one to your team.
Individuals join the next open cohort. Clinics, companies, schools and nurseries book a private one — tell us the group and we will send a proposal.
Sign for your work
Five short workshops, one profession at a time. No previous sign language needed.
AS · CARE
Sign for Care
Psychologists, therapists, doctors, nurses, social workersAS · STAGE
Sign for Performers
Actors, dancers, directors, drama studentsAS · CLASS
Sign for Teaching
Teachers, school staff, university facultyAS · HOME
Sign for Parents
Hearing parents of babies and toddlersAS · WORK
Sign at Work
Front-line staff — banks, retail, hospitals, hospitalityThese open in 2027. Dates and prices are announced closer to the time.
Not sure which one? Most people pick by job title. If two look like you, Care or Stage carry the most into everything else.