Ewing Foundation
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Working with other providers

Ewing Foundation staff provides input to courses, workshops and publications organised by:

Aimed at initial training for Teachers of the Deaf and further support for the work of those involved with deaf children in order to raise their educational and social achievement.

They contribute to events attended by:

From delegates at Language Assessment training day:

From a teacher-in-charge of a secondary unit for hearing-impaired pupils:

Blue Skies Project Launch

The Ewing Foundation Consultants work collaboratively with other professionals to deliver training.  At the London launch of the Blue Skies Project, a consultant led a workshop using software aimed to support language development and literacy in deaf children.www.blueskiesproject.org.uk

SERSEN

As a voluntary agency the Ewing Foundation works collaboratively with the South East Region Special Educational Needs partnership.  It facilitated a working group of professionals which contributed to the key activities within the SERSEN Action Plan.  The group produced an audit of the incidence of children within the South-East Region with permanent childhood deafness and an additional language/literacy difficulty.  The project, known as 'DASLLD', looked at trends in the data and collated a guidance document for teachers of the deaf to support their work with children who have these difficulties.  The group established that this was a significant area requiring further investigation.  Web documents are available at www.sersen.uk.net.  The recommendation for further training has been taken forward by the SERSEN Training Group.

Study guide

Following the 'Modernisation of Children's Hearing Aid Services' (MCHAS) directed by the University of Manchester, the Ewing Foundation produced training materials.  These took the form of a 'Step-by-Step Guide' to the use of the FP35 test box, a DVD/ video and a detailed Study Guide covering the change from analogue to Digital Signal Processing hearing aids, FM set up and use, and practical issues for teachers of the deaf.