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Several years ago I was employed as a Support Worker. This is a role which is paid for via a Government scheme called Access To Work. ATW can be used for many things; to pay for a support worker to help visually impaired people to get to meetings or conferences (a Guide dog can do lots of things but can’t read maps), the purchase of specialist equipment, or the provision of highly skilled BSL interpreters, for instance.

Nowadays I work primarily as a performer. A while ago I was in a play with a brilliant actor who happened to be deaf. He trained at Jaques Le Coque and as well as being very talented he also looked exactly like the character. He was the best person for the job and the fact that he was deaf was irrelevant to the production – indeed he was actually playing a character who…

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