Q&A with Mark Gill

Marks role is to engage with members of the community who are deaf and hard of hearing to improve their independence and encourage engagement within their communities.

Mark is profoundly deaf and well-placed to use his lived experience to inform his work. He delivers deaf and hard of hearing awareness sessions that highlight the daily challenges of being deaf and hard of hearing and educate the wider community with smart ways that they can make small adjustments to ensure deaf and hard of hearing people can participate more fully in daily life.

Mark also works with organisations to ensure they provide and maintain services with full accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing people. For example, ensuring that buildings have appropriate T-Loop systems for people who wear hearing aids and use English as their main language, or booking appropriately qualified BSL Interpreters for people who use British Sign Language as…