Andrew Plaster

About

My name is Andrew Plaster. I have been profoundly deaf since birth. I became interested in teaching in 1994 when I observed staff training on Deaf Awareness.

Since 1998, I have been teaching in part-time basis - British Sign Language Level 1 course at City of Bristol College (since 2008), Signite, BBC See Hear and Barton Hill Settlement and Deaf Awareness Communication at City of Bristol College and at various places for Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Adult Education Services. All courses are based on Signature’s curricula.


I also have been teaching on a freelance basis short courses on Deaf Awareness (since 2004) and Introduction to / Basic British Sign Language (since 2010) at various companies and organisations in all over UK for RNID, secondary schools for Signite and Deaf Sign Academy, and universities for I-Can-Sign Centre. Also occasional private tuition and teaching cover for ICS Centre (based at University of West of England) on British Sign Language Levels 1 and 2.

I was a committee member involved with deaf people in various roles at different times – Bristol Young Peoples Club for Deaf,Management Committee of Bristol Deaf Centre, Hearing Concern’s Young People Committee and British Deaf Association’s Western Area Council.

My personal interests are family history, local history and railways. I have researched my family histories since I was a boy. I am a member of Bristol Avon Family History Society, of which I was the Hon. Editor three times. I wrote articles on parish history for its quarterly journals. I wrote two books on my family history.