Raising Awareness in England and Wales
Who is Sense-Ability?
Sense-Ability is a training business run by Anna Lickley. She is profoundly deaf, degree educated, enthusiastic and committed to disability issues and empowering disabled people.
Anna holds a teaching qualification and has several years experience teaching British Sign Language and providing Deaf Awareness and Disability Equality Training. Being deaf, she is knowledgeable in issues relating to deafness. She has experience of working with disabled people and takes great interest in the wider spectrum of issues related to disability.
Anna Lickley
Anna
trained as a Fast-Track graduate trainee after graduating with
a degree in French. Fast-Track is a 12-month training scheme,
run by Scope, to enable high-calibre graduates with disabilities to reach
their potential in the job market. The scheme involves two 6-month work
experience placements and 4 week long training modules. Anna has worked
at the National Lottery Charities Board as a grants assessor and also
at Lloyds TSB Headquarters as a project assistant. As part of this, Anna
took part in a consultancy project for Lloyds TSB looking at their graduate
recruitment process and offering advice to improve access for disabled
people. Since then, she has worked in the Access Unit for Deaf and Disabled
Students at the University of Bristol where she gained a wide experience
of disability in the Higher Education field. Anna now teaches Sign Language
and Deaf Awareness.