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| Focus articles | |
| 4 | Shooters Hill | Jenny Summers, Pat Taylor and Rory McDonnell look at the collaboration that has created a first class environment for sixth form deaf students in South East London, with expert support across the range of needs making this a very popular place for post 16 deaf students to study. |
| 6 | Apprenticeships - are they right for deaf young people? | Martin McClean looks at the benefits as well as the difficulties for deaf young people embarking on an apprenticeship as well as giving information on what support they are entitled to in the workplace. |
| 8 | Developing a Transition service in audiology | Dhaval Mehta and Dawn Wilkinson make the case for a formal transition pathway to focus attention on this important milestone in the career of young deaf students. |
| 10 | Adept Conference 2015 | Jill Bussien reports from the adept National Conference held at East Berkshire College. The Conference began with the AGM with reports from the Trustees on the first year of adept and the plans for the subsequent year. The two keynotes speakers were Catherine Drew and Rachel O�Neill. |
| 12 | Post 16 Funding | There have been significant changes to the way post 16 students are funded in England. Brian Gale describes current funding arrangements. These revised funding arrangements distinguish between students with high levels of need and lower levels of need and this article explains how the two groups are funded. It also briefly explains funding arrangements for apprenticeships. |
| 14 | Changes in Further Education in Scotland � how are deaf students affected? | Rachel O�Neill describes how adept Scotland is trying to help Scottish deaf students now that Further Education was reorganised in Scotland in 2014 so that 37 colleges have been amalgamated into 20 larger ones.She also covers Adept�s approach to Skills Development Scotland, the agency responsible for training and careers, to find out why more deaf people are not getting on the higher status apprenticeships. |
| 16 | Preparation for the DSA needs assessment | Jane Barden talks through the process of application, the information that will have to be collected and what the student might expect as the application progresses. |
| 18 | Providing equipment through the Disabled Students Allowance | Laura Evans Beynon & Richard Vaughan describe how to get the best out of the assessment system to ensure a good result. |
| 20 | Disabled Students Allowance - where do we go from here? | Nicki Harris examines the impact of the recent changes to the DSA as well as the new changes due in next year and what it will mean to both students and ToDs. |
| 22 | Helping young people with MSI make a successful transition into adulthood | Steve Rose, Head of Children�s Specialist Services at National deafblind charity Sense, explains the important role teachers have in helping young people with MSI and parents to consider further education. |
| 24 | Ellie's story | Ellie Monk talks about her educational journey from her first school which had a deaf unit, followed by an excellent secondary school and then the very different experience in a deaf only boarding school before going to university. |
| 26 | About me - Carina's story | Carina describes her progress from her early years in Romania to an English secondary school and then to studying photography at college.She has a severe hearing loss, and currently has one hearing aid in her right ear and a cochlear implant in her left ear. |
| 28 | Striving for Independence | Sarah Burnell shares some of trials and tribulations of one young deaf student who also has a learning disability which has made life even more frustrating and challenging and how she is finding her own place in the world now she is at college. |
| 29 | An unusual journey of educational transition | Nicki Harris presents both sides of a young person�s traumatic experience boarding at a school where she was unhappy and how it was resolved. |
| General features | |
| 32 | 15 things people with a moderate hearing loss want you to know | Lynda Holland outlines some of the most important things for hearing people to understand about those living with hearing loss and the difficulties it causes in everyday life. |
| 33 | Experiencing Volunteer TOD Opportunities in Uganda | Chris Haigh reports on what she learned about education for deaf children in Uganda during her two weeks working with Mission Direct which proved to be a valuable and rewarding experience. |
| 36 | What to look for in an educational radio aid | Tony Murphy considers what needs to be taken into account when selecting the right radio aid for any individual child in their particular educational situation - including the age and ability of the child to report any problems, the environment as well as the finance available. |
| 38 | Vietnam | Lyndsey Allen reports from two weeks volunteering in Hanoi in an audiology centre and at a university and met many deaf children and their highly motivated parents. |
| 40 | Providing that missing piece of the puzzle | Wasfee Khan and Jo Garvey describe how social events can develop and promote Deaf identity to increase pupil confidence and well-being. |
| 44 | ICED Conference | Eleanor Hutchinson and Paul Simpson report from the 22nd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf which was held in Athens. Keynote speakers from the UK were Sue Archbold and Gary Morgan and there were presentations and workshops as well as opportunities for networking. |
| 46 | Introducing 'The Cross' | Chris Haigh reveals at what can be learnt using LIFE-R as a tool to evaluate the classroom listening experiences of FM users and develop their self-advocacy skills. |
| Regulars | |
| 47 | Review of The Cross Phonology Assessment | Katy Mitchell, a Teacher of the Deaf, gives an overview of her experience using The CROSS assessment in her work for Bristol�s Sensory Support Service. |
| 49 | Audiology Updates | This page features innovations and discussions of what is happening in real-world educational audiology and gives readers the opportunity to highlight issues that they encounter in the workplace, in this case the use of left and right markers to use on hearing aids plus who pays for consumables for students. |
| 50 | Reviews | Looking at �Reading between the signs� by Anna Mindness and �Commonsense methods for children with special educational needs� by Peter Westwood. |
| 57 | Representing You | 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. Your representatives at the meetings listed included: Andrea Baker, David Couch, Sue Denny, Paul Simpson, Alison Weaver. |
| Association Business | |
| 3 | Online..and up to date | Andrea Baker talks about the joys of talking and listening to young deaf people, the frustrations of being a ToD and the dangers of underestimating a �mild� hearing loss |
| 51 | The Deaf History website | Sue Gregory looks back over the first year of this section of the website and introduces the topics for 2016, the first of which will be deaf children with complex needs. |
| 52 | HIPEN welcomes FEAPDA | Jeign Craig and Paul Simpson were at a meeting of HIPEN � the European network for professionals who work with hearing-impaired people � which was held at the school for the deaf in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. |
| 54 | What Went On at NEC | Sue Denny reports from the NEC meeting in Birmingham in September 2015 which covered what BATOD had achieved during 2015 and included workshops for members and reports from the Regions and Nations. |
| 55 | TOD Training in Scotland | Elaine Harris looks at how distance learning, although based in Birmingham, provides a fulfilling path to becoming a qualified ToD as well as supplying opportunities for socialising and making long lasting friendships |
| 56 | Qualifying as a teacher of deaf children in Scotland | Rachel O�Neill looks at the programme of training for prospective ToDs in Scotland, what they can look forward to and what they might achieve. |
| inside back cover | Officers of Regions and Nations | Contact information for officers of BATOD Regions and Nations |
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