Ewing Foundation’s first bite-size of 2025 will be presented by Beth Kilmartin, a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with 24 years’ experience. Beth’s half-hour online presentation (on Teams) is called: ‘Research to practice – working with families of deaf children who speak more than one language’. It will be held on Wednesday 5th February,…
Researchers at the University of Birmingham are seeking participants for their study: Evidencing good practice to support deaf autistic children in education. The study, which is funded by the British Academy, seeks to identify effective practice in supporting the inclusion of deaf autistic children* aged 4-11 years in the United Kingdom. More specifically, the study aims: • to…
Benefact Group have launched their amazing Movement for Good for 2025 with gifts of £1,000 and £5,000 to give away. They will be running six £1,000 draws throughout the year, alongside a number of themed £5,000 special draws. The more nominations we get, the greater our chance of winning, so please spread the word to…
Would you like to help deaf children and young people to learn and achieve at school? The British Association of Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (BATOD) is offering five scholarships for teachers to train to become Qualified Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (QToDs). The Con Powell Memorial Scholarships, named after BATOD’s…
Wishing all of our Ewing Foundation family and friends a Happy New Year! Thank you so much for all your support over the last year. We look forward to working with you in 2025!
A 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…
£1,000 could make a big difference to our work at the Ewing Foundation. That’s why we’d be really grateful if you could nominate us in Benefact Group’s 12 Days of Giving. Your nomination could be the one that wins us £1,000. Benefact’s Movement for Good will be donating a total of £120,000 to 120 lucky …
Thank you to everyone who joined our bite-size online training this autumn. Over 100 people came along to our free sessions on target setting and ‘Success from the start’. Now in its second year, our convenient 30-minute bite-size training sessions are fast becoming one of our most popular services. This is just one part of…
Our Education Advisor team have prepared some synopses of useful research to help you in your work with deaf children and young people. Ewing Foundation’s synopsis of ‘Home Literacy Experiences and Shared Reading Practices: Preschoolers with Hearing Loss’ by Jean L. DesJardin, Carren J. Stikka, Laurie S. Eisenberg, Karen C. Johnson, Dianne Hammes Ganguly and…
Are you an Early Career Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People (ECToD)? Are you working in a resource provision with deaf children and young people? If you are working in isolation, in a resource provision on your own, as an unqualified Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People, or in training or newly qualified, then…