The Eastenders star is supporting a woman who has called for sign language training for 999 workers
Image caption,Mrs Corbett, 43, who was born deaf, was at work when her children rang her to say her husband had fallen ill."Not one of them could communicate with me and I couldn't explain who I was," she said, of the incident which took place in June 2021.
A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Corbett had suffered a blood clot which caused a fatal heart attack.Mrs Corbett, a teaching assistant at Royal School for the Deaf Derby, now wants all emergency workers to have some British Sign Language skills and the ability to connect to a qualified interpreter instantly.
She backed calls for paramedics to learn basic BSL and to have emergency interpreters on iPads on call.Elizabeth CorbettMrs Corbett said her children had thought her husband was kidding at first because he loved to joke She added she was currently fundraising online in her husband's memory to buy a specially-adapted minibus for the school - which he also attended.
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