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| Articles and Reports |
| Education and the mental health of deaf children | 3 | Peter Hindley introduces the Magazine focus of mental health and deafness. The Magazine looks at three levels of intervention: the opportunities for mental health promotion and preventing mental health problems in educational settings for deaf children; using consultation to schools - mainstream and special schools - to identify problems early and create interventions with educationalists that can avoid the need for input from specialist mental health services; and finally using schools as a base for providing counselling to children with significant mental health problems. Of particular concern are children with severe to profound hearing loss but much of what is said will be of relevance to children with less severe losses. This edition cannot hope to provide all of the answers to BATOD members’ questions about the mental health of the children that they teach but the writers of the articles hope it will stimulate them to look further. |
| Opportunities for mental health promotion | 5 | Peter Hindley considers mental health promotion and the prevention of mental health problems which are conventionally seen as separate activities. However, in reality they reflect a continuum. |
| Mental health consultation and deaf education | 8 | Nicoletta Gentili and Anita Winfield provide a model for consultation services to schools; the overall goal of which is to support staff in their work with pupils. The theoretical orientation of the model has a post-rationalistic therapeutic perspective based on attachment and child development theories. |
| Case study: problem resolution and solution creation | 10 | A graphic outline of a case study. |
| Psychotherapy with deaf children in schools | 11 | Jane Douglas, a psychodynamic therapist describes her main rôle offering individual therapy to deaf children and adolescents. Preferably, the sessions take place at the clinic at Hightrees, for various reasons that will become clear in the article. As the service is unique the team has to travel in order to provide a service to those who require it. For this article Jane will be focusing only on the service provision made for schools. This provides a brief insight into the work done by the team. |
| Healthy emotions | 13 | Laraine Callow considers how we can foster a deaf child’s healthy mental growth, thereby leading to a fully integrated personality. Some suggestions for teachers and parents are outlined. |
| Celebrating 25 years & ‘Breaking down Barriers’ | 16 | The Cardiff Conference was a celebration of the past 25 years of BATOD. The speakers’ contributions were clearly focused on the breaking down of barriers, working with other professionals and advancing deaf education into this new century. The Magazine carries photographs of the celebrations and an outline report of the various speakers' contributions. |
| Auditory-verbal therapy | 20 | Jacqueline Stokes is an auditory-verbal therapist and consultant. She considers the support and help offered to parents through Auditory-Verbal practice - a parent-centred approach - to enabling children with hearing impairment to learn to talk through listening. It focuses on the use of SOUND (audition) as the primary channel for learning and gaining meaning from the environment. |
| Information: |
| Teaching awards and peripatetic teachers | 24 | Whilst there is much debate about whether it is possible to single out individual teachers to receive awards and the devisive nature of such presentations, the fact is that the system is in place and is in use. Pauline Hughes drew BATOD NEC’s attention to the anomalies that appeared as she tried to process a nomination. The subsequent letter to Professor Ted Wragg is published here.... when a reply is received you will be kept up-to-date. |
| Noticeboard | 25 | Details of forth-coming meetings and courses. |
| Audiology Refresher no 16 | 27 | Margaret Glasgow continues her easy-to-read, quick reference guide Audiology Refreshers. The introduction of the Universal Neo-natal Hearing Screen (UNHS), together with a heightened awareness of hearing behaviour in young babies by parents, suggests that many more young babies will be prescribed hearing aids. There are many factors that need to be considered when aiding young babies. Refresher 16 looks at some of these factors. |
| Earmould provision for babies | 29 | As an Educational Audiologist Margaret Glasgow deals with many young babies using hearing aids. She writes to make a point about the overall poor service and quality of the moulds provided for babies. Her comments were quickly passed to those involved with UNHS developments. |
| Earmould provision - turn round time | 29 | Mike Nolan, Starkey Laboratories Ltd responded to Margaret's plea for solutions. He says that there is no justification in accepting that the norm for turn round for young hearing-impaired children is between 2 - 8 weeks. There is a number of factors influencing this service level - all of which could be significantly improved upon. Others discussions that followed are published here. |
| ICT Newspage | 31 | Jane Frew opens her postbag and shares ICT information with Teachers of the Deaf |
| International page: Somaliland | 33 | Doreen Woodford takes us with her to Somaliland which now has its first school for deaf children. Here is the seedbed for the future Deaf community, educated deaf people, sign language, interpreting, even secondary and further education. Somaliland has not yet had any of these. (There are deaf Somalis in nearly every country in Europe and many countries in Africa, but not in Somaliland, nor in Somalia itself.) |
| Classroom resources- Book reviews | 34 | Practising Teachers of the Deaf use the materials with their pupils before commenting for these reviews. |
| Are we HEADing in the right direction | 36 | Ted Moore looks at the results of a task completed in the Autumn Term 2000 by the Hon Secretary. This was to look at the 'Designation', 'Qualifications' and 'Salary Scale' of Heads of Services in the UK, who had responsibility for deaf pupils. Ted expresses concerns about the position of Heads of Services. |
| Modification of examination language | 39 | Derek Heppenstall reports on behalf of the GCSE sub-committee, bringing members up-to-date with the committes plans. The Examining Groups employ a number of Teachers of the Deaf approved by BATOD to modify the rubric and carrier language of examinations, the aim being to make the questions more accessible to hearing-impaired candidates. |
| This and That | 43 | Snippets of information that have been sent in to the Magazine Editor or received as press releases. All Teachers of the Deaf are invited to send in a paragraph/photograph or comments for this page. |
| Equipment news - fmGenie review | 45 | Richard Vaughan, NDCS Technology Officer, looks at the new fMGenie from Connevans. |
| Association Business: |
| Presidential ramblings | 2 | Sue Archbold, President chats about recent newsworthy items. |
| What went on at NEC on 17 March 2001 | 1 | The regular precis of meeting business to keep members informed in outline until the minutes or more detailed reports appear. |
| Minutes of NEC Meeting 2 December 2000 | centre pages | Confirmed Minutes of the previous NEC Meeting |
| Representing you | 30 | Between the NEC meetings members of BATOD attend various meetings that are of particular interest to Teachers of the Deaf. This list is not exhaustive as some reports have not yet been received or meetings reported on. |
| NEC Committees working for you | 37 | Reports from the NEC standing committees to update members on recent work carried out. |
| GCSE Sub-committee report | 38 | Jenny Baxter reports on the latest meeting of the Committee and outlines some of its plans. |
| BATOD UK - news from the regions | 40 | Region representatives keep NEC members updated on what is happening around the UK. If you have not attended a region meeting or wonder what has happened recently then you can catch up with the news on these pages. |
| Subscription Rates | | Annual Membership subscription rates apply from 1st August. Slight changes to the rules and an opportunity for those over 80 to remain as BATOD members free! |
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| Calendar |
| Meetings to know about | 48 | Advertised courses and meetings which are of interest to BATOD members. Contact the magazine editor to add a one line entry to this valuable page or pay for a small advert on the Noticeboard. |
| Advertising Rates | 39 | |
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