Tessa Padden
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| Tessa Padden | |
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| Born |  England |
| Occupation | Presenter Management Training Consultant |
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| See Hear Website | |
Tessa Padden, (MA) is a Deaf British television presenter and management training consultant. Padden formerly presented the Deaf News segment of a Deaf magazine programme for the BBC, See Hear.
Padden is a former British Sign Language (BSL) Quality and Training Manager at SignPost BSL. During the European Conference in Brussels in February 2004, Padden was Head of Sign Language Services for Independent Media Signing (IMS).[1] She was the founding chair of the BDA's BSL Institute and is a founding member of the BDA's Sign Academy.[2] She was the first Deaf person to present a signed news item on a mainstream news programme, on Channel 4.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "European Conference". http://www.ictrnid.org.uk/euc/delegate.html. Retrieved 2006-10-13.
- ^ "Tessa Padden". SignAcademy.org.uk. http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=584248029. Retrieved 2006-10-13.
- ^ "IMS Who's who". IMS-Media.com. http://cache.zoominfo.com/cachedpage/?archive_id=922597834&page_id=1156573215&page_url=%2f%2fwww.ims-media.com%2ftext_version%2fwho_we_are.html&page_last_updated=6%2f18%2f2005+11%3a43%3a40+PM&firstName=Tessa&lastName=Padden. Retrieved 2006-10-13.
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