This summer, Mary Hare School will be holding a conference at their Arlington Arts Centre in Newbury. The event, which takes place on Saturday 29th June, is titled ‘Teaching deaf children through speaking and listening: a one-day conference examining practical approaches to oral education’. The programme for the day includes speakers and group sessions covering…
Save the date for our ‘Working with deaf children and young people with additional or complex needs’ conference on 12th June 2024. Following the success of our event in York, our next conference will take place at the offices of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) in London next summer. The NCVO offices are…
For one week only this November, the Benefact Group’s Movement for Good campaign is giving away an amazing £5,000 to ten charities working with children and young people. Please help Ewing Foundation to be one of these lucky charities. Nominations are only open for five days – from 6th-10th November 2023 – so please help…
This autumn/ winter, our Ewing Foundation team are pleased to offer deaf education professionals breakfast bite-size learning opportunities to get the day off to a great start! Each online session will take place from 8.30am to 9am and will include an introduction to the topic, time for discussion and a take-home summary of the session.…
Over the next year, we will be celebrating 70 amazing years of supporting deaf children and young people and their teachers. Malcolm and Sheila McAlpine set up the Ewing Foundation in 1952, naming it in honour of the audiologists Sir Alexander and Lady Irene Ewing. The Ewings had been of enormous help to the McAlpines…
Thank you so much to everyone who visited our stand at the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf’s Annual Study Day in Huddersfield on 14 October. It was fantastic to see you all in person after so long. It was a great day with excellent presentations, including one from England deaf cricket international James…
Our Technology Consultant Paul Harris has been working with the charity Chloe and Sophie’s Special Ears Fund (CSSEF) to develop technology to help deaf children in the classroom. CSSEF’s is committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing of deaf children. During the pandemic, they have provided hearing aid batteries and facemasks free of charge. Now, with…
On 25th March, our Technology Consultant Paul Harris addressed over 300 attendees in an online event organised by Oticon UK. Taking questions from Oticon’s Alison Stone, Paul talked about a variety of issues including: What to look for in a remote microphone Compatibility between brands Tamper resistant battery doors Advances in signal processing Linking hearing…
Are you a teacher who would like to train to become a Teacher of the Deaf? If so, scholarships are available for your training. Funded by our partner Ovingdean Hall Foundation, The Con Powell Memorial Scholarships are managed by British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD), with support provided by the Ewing Foundation team. The…