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Zach Moss
27 January 2016
My Life, My Decision: Training for the deaf community
![The BSL interpreter helps deliver the training](https://cdn.compassionindying.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/16-01-25-Mina-300x258.png)
Feedback from the group echoed the ongoing struggle to improve accessibility to services and information the deaf community face.Some of the points of feedback attendees mentioned were:
- Doctors have wrongly assumed that a deaf person lacks capacity as they have not used the appropriate means of communication to enable a deaf person to express their wishes
- More of the My Life, My Decision reading material needs to be adapted for the deaf
- More BSL interpreters need to be trained to understand the 3 Tools for Planning
- More professionals need to be made aware that they need to use the right methods of communication to engage the deaf community when assessing the mental capacity