Kent Deaf Interpreting Service (KDIS)

KCC has set up Kent Deaf Interpreting Service (KDIS) to provide a range of communication services to people who are deaf or deafblind. Any public sector organisation in Kent can use the service.

They have a small team of in-house BSL interpreters, backed up by a framework of local interpreters and agencies to provider different types of communication support, including:

• British Sign Language (BSL)
• Deafblind Manual (visual-frame and hands-on)
• Social haptic communication
• Manual and electronic note taking
• Lip speaking (English and other languages)
• Palantypists and speech-to-text-reporting (STTR)
• Note taking.
• Documentation translation and audio-visual transcription
• In-vision translation

You can find out more in their leaflet here and book an interpreter via their website here.