Louisa McDaid

Registered Lipspeaker
(Registration Expires: 30/03/2025)
Registered Electronic Notetaker
(Registration Expires: 30/03/2025)
Photo ID Card No: 1006751

Weekdays Evenings Weekends
Contact no 07837622229
07837 622229
Text only No
Email address louisam78@yahoo.co.uk

The information provided below is additional to registration requirements and therefore has not been verified by NRCPD.

Memberships

Organisation Date joined
Association of Lipspeakers (ALS) 05/03/2011
Association of Lipspeakers with Additional Sign 01/07/2019
Association of Notetaking Professionals (ANP) 01/01/2020
Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SASLI) 01/04/2021
Theatre Captioner Network 17/01/2023

Additional qualifications

Type Qualification Date achieved
Communication / Language iBSL Level 2 Deafblind Communication 15/08/2022
Communication / Language iBSL Level 6 Certificate in British Sign Language Studies 15/12/2017
Professional Signature Level 3 Lipspeaking 02/02/2012
Professional Signature Level 3 Notetaking (Electronic) 22/01/2010
Professional StageText Certificate in Theatre Captioning for Deaf People 29/01/2007
Professional CACDP Level 2 Certificate in Electronic Notetaking 26/04/2005

Employments

Start date End date Job title Employer
01/01/2004 Communication Professional Freelance
01/01/2006 Stagetext qualified Theatre Captioner Freelance
17/03/2020 Remote Captioner/Lipspeaker Freelance

General Info

Website:  https://www.stagecaptions.com

I specialise in on-site and remote live captioning services, including theatre.  

Assignments

Education
Schools, e.g. classroom, staff meetings/training, parents' meetings
Adult Education, i.e. 'leisure' courses
SEN tribunals
Further Education
Higher Education and professional
Leisure
Sport indoor
Social events, e.g. wedding reception
Sport outdoor, outdoor pursuits
Mental Health
Clinical meetings
Therapy/treatment
Clinical interviews, e.g. mental state examinations, assessments
Tribunals
Health and Social Services
Physical health, e.g. GPs, hospitals, physio, opticians, dentists, health visitors, ante-natal
Child protection case conferences
Social Services home visits and assessments
Housing
Community consultation meetings
Social Services casework
Theatre, Arts, Television
Television on screen, i.e. front of camera
Theatre/opera performance, musicals, pantomime, comedy, etc
Talks, e.g. gallery, museum
Workshops or training, arts, TV
Deaf cabaret
Legal and Quasijudicial
Solicitors'/barristers' meetings, law centres
Tribunals, e.g. DLA appeals, employment, immigration
Courts, e.g. magistrates, crown, civil
Prison or probation
Police interviews (including customs and immigration)
Memorandum interviews with children and vulnerable adults
Employment
Disciplinary proceedings - employment
Training/professional development
Work support, e.g. telephone interpreting, meetings, correspondence, supervision
Interviews
Other Specialisms
Disabilities, i.e. deaf people with disabilities
Conferences and large meetings
Disability politics
Children and young people
Political
Religion specified, e.g. services, weddings, funerals
Telephone
Video telephony, i.e. remote, distance
Driving test
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual