Tessa Padden

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| occupation = Presenter
Management Training Consultant

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| website =[http://www.bbc.co.uk/seehear See Hear Website]

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Tessa Padden is a Deaf British television presenter and management training consultant. Padden formerly presented 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 [http://www.signpostbsl.com/ SignPost BSL]. During the European Conference in Brussels in February 2004, Padden was Head of Sign Language Services for Independent Media Signing (IMS).{{cite web|title=European Conference|url=http://www.ictrnid.org.uk/euc/delegate.html|accessdate=2006-10-13}} She was the founding chair of the BDA's BSL Institute and is a founding member of the BDA's [https://web.archive.org/web/20061027192420/http://www.signacademy.org.uk/ Sign Academy].{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} She was the first Deaf person to present a signed news item on a mainstream news programme, on Channel 4.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}