Children's hearings - supervision

Deaf/Hearing Impaired

Specialist Advisory Teachers for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired (Also known as Teachers of the Deaf) support the following groups of children;

• All hearing aids wearers from diagnosis of their hearing loss until they leave school
• Children with persistent moderate (average over 40dB) conductive losses, whose behaviour or progress in school is causing concern
• Children with a hearing loss in association with a recognised syndrome, disability or learning difficulty
• Children with a mild (30-40dB) sensori-neural or mixed losses
• Children with a unilateral hearing loss where the loss averages over 50dB

Cumbria County Council provide Children's hearings supervision as part of their Children's Services.