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| Video Nation: Sign-language transcribed | |
|  | | Jean Lethbridge gets her message across |
| | Jean Lethbridge's Video Nation film "Sign Language" is all about her profound deafness. To assist people who are deaf, this is a transcript of what Jean, from Plymouth, says in the short film. |
| | | "I'm married with two children who are now both grown up. Myself and my husband are both profoundly deaf and also my eldest son.
"Amongst the family we all use British sign language to communicate for our everyday communication.
"In the so-called hearing world - I'll give you an example. Say if I need to to visit the doctor or the hospital, or a work situation, a work meeting, I'm very reliant on interpreter provision. Like say for example, giving birth - having a baby.
"Or work information, legal information, whatever information I need, I need to access that by using an interpreter.
"They need to be appropriately qualified and it's not easy to obtain an interpreter at short notice because unfortunately in this area there is a huge shortfall in interpreter provision.
"And often people assume that profoundly deaf people are able to fully understand written English when in actual fact it is our second language.
"I do struggle with written English and I much prefer to have an interpreter who is able to clarify everything in my own language."I have lots of friends through the deaf community and we all meet regularly at a deaf club in Plymouth.
"I have to be honest, it's more like my extended family here. I get on with people more within the deaf community, I have more in common with the deaf community than I do with my own family, with my parents in Exeter, which is where I'm from originally.
"I feel much more at ease with the deaf club because I am able to communicate using my own language and it's much easier, and you are able to be much more relaxed."
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