EwingA teacher, supported by both Ewing Foundation and our grant making partner Ovingdean Hall Foundation, has recently published important research exploring the assistive hearing technology used by services for deaf children.
Carly Humphries, a Qualified Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People at Wandsworth Sensory Support Service, has carried out the research as part of her MSc in Deaf Education at The University of Manchester. The project was supervised by Dr Lindsey Jones, Senior Lecturer in Deaf Education at The University of Manchester, and carried out in collaboration with our Audiologist James Mander.
Schools can be noisy places and assistive technologies ensure that the classroom teacher’s voice can be heard by deaf pupils above the background noise of a busy classroom. This UK-focused study explores what type of assistive technologies are being provided, and how Heads of Services decide what purchases to make and to allocate.