Transition is complicated! National Deaf Children's Society

The afternoon starts off with a great lightning talk from Liz Stott about SLT services for deaf adults - a really interesting and underfunded area

We also heard from Tamara from Cognus Therapies about EHCPs and secondary therapy support for Deaf young people in Sutton Council

And finally the AMAZING Michael and Iqbal from Tower Hamlets Learning Advisory Service presented on their experiences and journeys of accessing support as Deaf adults. Such an important topic to end our day with 🙌

Thank you so much to everyone who attended today - looking forward to seeing you again in May!

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Happy Deaf Awareness Week 2023! As we celebrate Deaf Awareness Week from 1 -7 May 2023 with the theme "Access to Communication", we post posts aligned with BDA's 10-year strategy; what should Access to Communication be like for the deaf community? #TakingBSLForward

Happy Deaf Awareness Week 2023! From 1st to 7th May 2023, celebrate Deaf Awareness Week with the theme "Access to Communication". Today we post about Inclusive Education from our 10-year strategy papers; what should it be like for the deaf community? #DeafAwarenessWeek2023

We're kicking off our May 2023 CEN meeting with Lisa Nash talking about assessment and monitoring of listening skills for children with complex needs. Come and join us if you can.

Attending todays virtual CEN? Please spend a few minutes filling in the feedback form here. It helps us know what you want to see at the next meeting. forms.gle/pcqty1tSHoHfQG…

AAC talk by Nikky Steiner don't assess whether the child understands symbols/pictures/objects before considering AAC device this was previously what was done. Instead use:

Great website for help and information around AAC assistiveware.com/learn-aac/what…

Useful References for the use of AAC

Glynis Haines has joined us for the afternoon to think about The SHAPE CODING TM system. Making the shapes coloured does not work because lots of words can be put into a shape and they're all different parts of speech.

Colours are not the most important part of the SHAPE CODING TM system

More than one word can go in each shape it's not a 1:1 correspondence, otherwise you get stuck on a basic sentence level

When starting teach children about the present progressive and the simple past, not the progressive past because this is a more complex sentence structure so the progressive past structure comes later

Remember to always show children how to use words in sentences as well as their meaning when teaching vocabulary:

Help TAs be involved in your SHAPE CODING TM sessions and see whether they can put them in order. If not it's a good opportunity for any children you're working with to help them and show them how to.

Join us for our online CEN study day on 8th November where we’ll be hearing from: Liam O'Dell, the BEARS project sponsored by National Institute for Health and Care Research carried out by Guy's and St Thomas', Auditory Verbal UK BATOD and an educational audiologist. Can’t wait to see you there.