Hi
We have a resourced provision for pupils with hearing impairments/deafness and employ BSL trained staff including two staff members who are deaf or HI themselves. However both those staff can lip read and communicate verbally as well as sign. We have just appointed a new teacher to the provision who is deaf and communicates in BSL only so I suspect he will need an interpreter with him at all times. I arranged for one to be with him at interview yesterday and I know this is funded by Access to Work. But I wondered if anyone else has been in a similar situation and does the employee have to apply for Access to Work and arrange his/her own interpreter or do we do it? Is it likely something like this would be funded under the ATW scheme?
thanks