{"id":11539,"date":"2025-06-02T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:02:19","slug":"celebrating-20-years-of-selectspecs-with-20-bsl-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/celebrating-20-years-of-selectspecs-with-20-bsl-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 20 Years of SelectSpecs with 20 BSL Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may already know, SelectSpecs is turning 20 this year. To celebrate we recently collaborated with Barbara Diesel, a British sign language interpreter. Barbara has compiled 20 basic signs along the theme of glasses and vision for us all to learn and help where needed.<\/p>\n<p>As well as glasses SelectSpecs also offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/hearing\/\">hearing aids<\/a> with options of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/hearing\/behind-the-ear\/c442\/\">behind the ear<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/hearing\/in-the-ear\/c441\/\">in the ear<\/a>, whatever the preference. If you&#8217;re not sure, you can book a free audiology consultation on our website to speak to us about your hearing and how a hearing aid may help you. We have a wide range of budget options available to order online so be sure to have a look.<\/p>\n<p>To get you started on your signing journey or if you\u2019ve ever wondered how to spell SelectSpecs; below is a step by step guide to finger spelling your favourite optical store:-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-05-26-at-13.23.54-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-05-26-at-13.23.54-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-05-26-at-13.23.54-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-05-26-at-13.23.54.png 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you can learn from the video available on our YouTube channel, here:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"20 Signs for 20 Years - Celebrating 20 Years of SelectSpecs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGlTOr8Ja-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may already know, SelectSpecs is turning 20 this year. To celebrate we recently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11548,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions\/11548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}