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What Deaf People Feel Makes an Excellent Language Service Professional

19 January 2021

NRCPD's regulatory work involves ensuring the quality of language services nationally to protect deaf* (Deaf, deaf, deafened, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind) people across the UK from poor practice by NRCPD Registered Language Service Professionals. Read more »

How NRCPD Registration has helped my Career

18 November 2020

Paul Belmonte has been registered with the NRCPD as a fully qualified British Sign Language/English Interpreter since 2013, and has practised since 2005. He began learning British Sign Language in 2001; two years later, a Deaf BSL teacher encouraged him to become an interpreter. Paul says: 'I lacked the confidence and thought I couldn't do it, but the teacher physically put the application forms into my hands and within a few weeks, I was on the interpreting course at Heriot-Watt University.' Read more »