What does a communication support worker (CSW) do?
• A CSW is (someone) a professional person who is able to support a range of D/deaf students using a variety of methods of communication to suit each individual. • CSWs can support students by interpreting lecture or tutorials into BSL, by lip-speaking to the student, or by note-taking for the student (either by hand or electronically). • CSWs can be used in normal class or lecture time, at tutorials, at college interviews, on work experience or on residential courses. • CSWs can support students to help them understand the written course material, and help the student when producing their own written work. • CSWs often provide this support as part of a team that may include a teacher of the deaf or another support tutor who will also work with the student. • The CSW may be able to offer brief deaf awareness training to the lecturer and hearing students to facilitate the inclusion of the D/deaf student within the class, and to ensure that the needs of the deaf student are understood by
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