
The hearing support team
The Hearing Support Team is a specialist teaching service that supports children and young people with a hearing loss, from birth to 25 years.
Hearing Support Leaflet for Parents and Carers
Hearing Support Leaflet – Word
We support children and young people at home and in their education setting.
Our Team
- qualified Teachers of the Deaf (ToDs) – teachers who have completed further specialist training and gained the mandatory qualification to teach and support children with hearing loss
- specialist teaching assistants (TAs) and specialist higher level teaching assistants (HLTAs) – teaching assistants with extensive knowledge and experience in supporting pupils with hearing losses
- educational audiologist – a qualified Teacher of the Deaf, who has completed further specialist training in educational audiology
- audiology technicians – specialists preparing, auditing and servicing assistive listening devices, such as radio aids and soundfield systems
- sign language tutor – specialist HLTA with additional qualification in British Sign Language and rich personal experience as a person with hearing loss
How we can help
- Provide support and information for parents/carers
- Training and advice for professionals working with children and young people with hearing losses in educational settings
- ongoing assessment of needs, to inform the intervention and where required, for the statutory EHC Plans
- interventions to support the achievement of individual targets/EHCP outcomes
- acoustic evaluations of classrooms/educational environments
- provision of assistive listening devices (radio aids, soundfield systems, remote microphones, etc).
- close collaboration with Health (clinical audiologists, speech and language therapists, health visitors, etc.)
- social events for children with hearing losses and their families
- targeted sign support from our BSL tutor
- provide LTP (Listen Talk and Play group for the families with pre-school children with Hearing Loss
How to access the service
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talk to the Special Educational Needs & Disability Coordinator (SENDCo) at your child’s school or setting,
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visit the Access to Education website or contact Sandra Paddock at ssparentenquiry@birmingham.gov.uk
Schools
Find out more about Longwill School for the Deaf (primary) www.longwill.bham.sch.uk
Find out more about Braidwood Trust School for the Deaf (secondary) www.braidwood.bham.sch.uk