Deaf and hearing impaired support

If you are a person who is Deaf or who has hearing loss or Tinnitus, you can get support from the  JDA's Hearing Connect department.

Support includes:

  • Technology and information centre
  • Hearing aid maintenance service
  • Impartial information on NHS and private sector audiology
  • Current affairs discussion group
  • Book club
  • Learn to lip read
  • Living with Tinnitus
  • On-site training and support for people who are housebound or living in residential care
Find out about JDA's services (external link)

Communication support for council services

DA Languages BSL interpreting service

The council works with DA Languages to support deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing people in Barnet to have access to social care services.

If requested your social worker will arrange a:

  • BSL interpreter
  • Sign Supported English (SEE) interpreter
  • Manual interpreter for Deafblind people
  • Lipspeaker
  • Speech to text reporter (palantypist)

This service is free.

 InterpretersLive BSL video interpreting service

Barnet Council has launched a British Sign Language (BSL) video interpreting service in partnership with InterpretersLive

The service helps deaf and hard of hearing residents access Barnet's contact centres.

Find out more about contacting us using BSL video calls

Communication support for emergency services

If you are deaf, hard of hearing or speech-impaired people you can send an SMS message to 999 to call for help and the emergency services will be able to reply to you.

You will need to register your mobile phone before using the emergencySMS service

How to use emergencySMS

Apps that assist with hearing impairment

P3 Mobile

P3 Mobile enables video-based calls, created for the deaf and hard of hearing community.

RogerVoice (Available on Google Play only)

RogerVoice displays subtitles to each of your phone calls automatically. 

Sign BSL (Available on Apple Store only)

Sign BSL allows users to search and compare thousands of words and phrases in BSL.