Tessa Padden
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| Born |  England |
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| Occupation | Presenter Management Training Consultant |
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Tessa Padden, (MA) is a Deaf British television presenter and management training consultant. She is the presenter of 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. Retrieved on 2006-10-13.
- ^ Tessa Padden. SignAcademy.org.uk. Retrieved on 2006-10-13.
- ^ IMS Who's who. IMS-Media.com. Retrieved on 2006-10-13.
