The Hearing Impairment Team

Introduction

• audiological and educational advice and support
• strategies and support to enable impaired children and young people to access the mainstream curriculumstrategies to develop and promote independence.

The Team

The team consists of teachers with an additional specialist qualification for teaching children with a hearing impairment, educational audiologists, sign language skills advisors, deaf role models and specially trained teaching assistants.  We aim to provide a comprehensive support and teaching service to babies and pupils with a hearing impairment, their families, carers, schools and other agencies.

If your child has a suspected hearing impairment, the Hearing Impaired Team will become involved as soon as a referral to the service is made.  We have an open referral policy and will accept requests for involvement from parents/carers, medical professionals, professionals within Children's Services, nurseries and schools.  A Request for Involvement form and accompanying guidance notes can be downloaded at the top of the right hand column.

The team can provide a broad array of support which may include:

• a diagnostic Educational Audiology Service from 0-16 years
• on-going audiological assessment and advice
• support for families and carers in a range of settings, including the home
• collaborative working with families, professionals and other agencies
• specialist educational assessment and advice
•  advice on language and communication development
• support and teaching in Early Years settings, mainstream and special schools
• development of independent learning skills
• contribution to Statutory Assessment, Annual Reviews, IEPs and individual programmes of work
• advice on special arrangements for internal and external examination and assessments
• provision of deaf awareness and in-service training
• provision of radio hearing aids for hearing aid users where appropriate, with on-going management, information and maintenance
• advice and training on the use of classroom and portable 'Sound Field Systems', cochlear implants and bone anchored hearing aids

Contact Information

If you require further information, we will be happy to help:

Telephone: 01905 765849
Fax: 01905 765739