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National awards for deaf communication
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(SEN news)
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Nominations are being sought for the 2012 Signature Annual Awards, which celebrate the UK’s finest deaf communicators.
Designed to highlight those individuals who are making a positive contribution to ...
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Created on 09 February 2012
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Special skills
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(SEN articles)
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... hearing impaired, visually impaired or multisensory impaired pupils. The scheme was successful in attracting “new blood” and maintaining standards of entry; without the scheme, two thirds of the students ...
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Created on 08 February 2012
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Deaf friendly football competition announced
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(SEN news)
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... by the National Deaf Children’s Society, will involve hundreds of deaf children and young people. Teams can include both hearing and deaf children but there must be at least three deaf players in each ...
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Created on 30 January 2012
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Fighting ignorance: SEN in Bangladesh
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(SEN articles)
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... which have a resource teacher and a resource room in each school. Schools for the deaf and hearing impaired There are seven government run schools for the deaf providing services to 700 children, of whom ...
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Created on 30 January 2012
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Sign of the times
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(SEN articles)
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... accessing healthcare services are all simple everyday tasks that so many people regularly take for granted, but what about the one in six people who live with some degree of hearing loss? Although deaf ...
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Created on 27 January 2012
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Transition guide for deaf teenagers
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(SEN news)
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A new guide for professionals, aimed at smoothing the transition of deaf children from children’s to adult audiology services, has been published by the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS). The ...
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Created on 06 January 2012
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Not listening or not hearing?
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(SEN articles)
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... of early signs of needs, however, later difficulties may be avoided or addressed so that all children can be stretched and challenged.
What is the difference between listening and hearing?
One reason ...
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Created on 05 January 2012
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Schools are failing deaf children
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(SEN news)
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Nearly two thirds of deaf children do not have a basic understanding of maths and English when they leave primary school. Key Stage Two results published on 16 December 2011 show that 64 per cent of deaf ...
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Created on 21 December 2011
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Express intent
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(SEN articles)
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... of seven, she had suddenly lost her hearing completely due to sickle cell disease, and she had become very ill. She was wearing hearing aids on both ears and her class teacher communicated with her through ...
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Created on 15 December 2011
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Nominations sought for deaf parenting lifetime award
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(SEN news)
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The search is on to find suitable candidates for the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Deaf Parenting UK. The charity is celebrating its tenth anniversary and this special Award will recognise ...
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Created on 02 November 2011
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Meningitis survivors need educational support
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(SEN news)
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... children who survive meningococcal disease (a form of meningitis) are five times more likely to have speech, communication and hearing problems and are four times more likely to have mental health problems ...
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Created on 31 October 2011
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BSL assessments: a sign of things to come
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(SEN articles)
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... milestones has not been established and, therefore, it is more challenging to assess deaf children’s sign language development. Most deaf children are born into hearing families, with no ...
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Created on 26 October 2011
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Down syndrome: Ruby goes to nursery
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(SEN articles)
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... with a list of questions and do not be afraid to ask them! As well as Down's syndrome, Ruby has an additional hearing impairment, and this further added to our concerns about how she would manage at nursery. ...
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Created on 25 October 2011
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Noise annoys: are classrooms too loud?
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(SEN articles)
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... hearing” who burst into tears when she first saw “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” written down, as she had always heard it as “Dwindle, Dwindle...”. In her school the louder vowel sounds reverberated too ...
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Created on 21 October 2011
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BSL archive available to all online
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(SEN news)
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A unique collection of language recordings of British Sign Language (BSL) is now available online. Under the supervision of staff at the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) at UCL, ...
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Created on 10 October 2011
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Teaching foreign languages to pupils with SEN
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(SEN articles)
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... reference books they need within their reach. A candidate with hearing impairment may be entitled to access arrangements in GCSE MFL examinations. A group of Year 7 students being taught the French greeting ...
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Created on 04 October 2011
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Autism: diagnosis day horror
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(SEN articles)
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... register the meaning of all that I was hearing. My mind was adrift on a tide of emotions. I needed to know more but I was aware that I didn’t even know what questions to ask. I am ashamed to say that ...
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Created on 30 September 2011
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What SENCOs need to know about building projects
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(SEN articles)
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... regulations. For example, sound field (sound amplification) systems have been found to benefit children with hearing impairment, maintain the attention span of younger children and those with learning ...
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Created on 28 September 2011
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Rockstars join deafblind drumming event
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(SEN news)
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... people who have a sight and hearing loss.” Drumathon is a nationwide schools activity which took place at the start of July in over 200 schools. Up to 10,000 primary school children throughout the UK ...
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Created on 03 August 2011
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Lady Gaga is to learn sign language
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(SEN news)
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Controversial pop star Lady Gaga is to learn American Sign Language (ASL), according to reports coming out of the US. The singer, whose album Born This Way currently tops the album charts on both sides ...
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Created on 15 June 2011
