Dilys Palin Dilys grew up with a deaf brother and started to learn sign language in 1991 then went into Lipspeaking and qualified as a level 3 lipspeaker in 2001.
Honorary Secretary
Sara Scanlon
Treasurer
Laraine Chaundy
Minutes Secretary
Bill Spernick
Information Officer
Dilys Palin
Membership Secretary
Beverley Roberts Beverley works as an educational CSW and a freelance Lipspeaker. She has successfully completed the NVQ 4 in BSL and is carrying on her studies with an MA degree in BSL interpretation and translation at Leeds university.
She has also finished three of the four new Signature units which are required for level 3 Lipspeaking qualification. Beverley adores lipspeaking and is very proud to be working side by side with colleagues who strive hard to maintain very high professional standards.
Events Co-ordinator
Pam Williams Pam is married with a son and daughter. She enjoyed teaching in middle schools and has since become a lipspeaker and notetaker. This career choice was influenced by the fact that she has a brother with aphasia.
Pam is interested in the countryside having grown up on a farm, she loves with walking her dog and gardening.
Pam is currently endeavouring to learn French.
Other Valued Working Member of the Committee
Carol Haythornthwaite
Carol lives with her husband in a lovely village near Huddersfield. She has two sons and two step sons with four daughter in laws and two grandchildren.
She has worked with Deaf and Hard of Hearing people for many years working in the office at the local Deaf Centre. She became involved with Hard of Hearing and Deafness issues because of her mother. She is a freelance level 3 lipspeaker.
Her interests are ballroom dancing, sewing, knitting, theatre and Cruising Holidays.