guides and scouts

Guides and Brownies deaf aware badge has four parts, but is fair to say that most will only complete level one, unfortunately. Below are the four stages that are required to obtain the green deaf aware badge.

Stage 1
Learn The manual alphabet (finger spelling) and use it to : -
Tell a tester your name.
Ask the tester his/her name and understand their reply.
Find out and tell the tester about hearing dogs and their uses.
Take part in a game or activity with your unit while wearing earplugs or headphones, making you unable to hear clearly.
Show the tester the correct way to approach a deaf person and how to speak to them in order for that person to lip read.

Stage 2
Using a sign language together with finger spelling show you can : -
Introduce yourself to a deaf person and tell that person something about your home and a hobby you enjoy.
Understand something the tester tells you about themselves.
Make sure you know how to say "I don't understand".
Know something about the work of one of the national voluntary organizations serving the needs of the deaf people and those with a hearing loss, such as Friends of young deaf, or National deaf children's society.
Share this information with members of your unit.
Show the tester the symbol that indicates which facilitates having provision for people with a hearing impairment.
Know the importance of facial expression and gesture, when communicating with a deaf person.
Find out what it is like to be deaf or to have a hearing loss by talking to someone with this disability, and tell the tester how it affects that persons life.

Stage 3
Be able to sign a simple story, poem or song, and answer six questions signed to you. Reply in sign.
Find out something about a famous deaf person (e.g. Jack Ashley MP, Evelyn Glennie, Elizabeth Quinn or Beethoven) and tell the tester what you have learned.
What hazards or difficulties could a deaf person encounter in daily living, and what safety devices are available to help. (e.g. fire alarms, minicoms )etc..
Take part in a social event with one or more members of the deaf community. (e.g. deaf club, school or special unit, possibly helping at a holiday or play scheme).

Stage 4
Using sign language hold a conversation on a chosen subject with a deaf person for at least ten minutes.
Find out about the development of hearing aids to the present day, (e.g. ear trumpet, phonic ear). Give a talk about them to the group of people.
Investigate the difficulties faced by someone with a hearing impairment, who has an additional disability.
(mobility or blindness for example). Then explain to the tester the difficulties they have.

Then finally complete one of the following:
Design something which will enable a deaf person to become more independent.

Show the tester how you would teach road safety to a child with a hearing loss.

Show the tester how you would make a house safe for someone with a hearing loss.

Information received from Helen Mason ( Project Co-ordinator) London.
http://www.girlguiding.org.uk
Thank you Helen (1st July 2002)

Cubs and Scouts

This badge is slightly different in that its an interpreter badge, and to gain it you must perform the following:-

Alternative A : Complete the following in any foreign language.
Carry on a simple conversation for ten minutes.
Write a letter of around 150 words.
After a few minutes of study, give an approximate translation of a paragraph.
Act as an interpreter for a visit who does not speak in their native language.
Write letters or correspond regularly with a person of your own age who does not speak your language.

Alternative B : Complete the following in a sign language.
Carry out a simple conversation for about ten minutes.
Descried a scouting experience to another person in sign.