Sensory Impairment Service
The service supports children who are visually or hearing impaired. Our referrals often come from the audiology and ophthamology departments at Alder Hey but parents/carers, schools, health visitors and other professionals are welcome to contact the service.
What does the service do?
- We provide support to families, schools and nurseries
- We delivery relevant training to schools and other agencies
- We support pupils in mainstream and special schools
- We promote effective teaching plans.
- We supply and maintain special equipment and resources, e.g. FM systems for hearing impaired pupils and ICT software and equipment for visually impaired pupils
- We work closely with a range of other agencies to deliver co-ordinated support
Please use the following links to find out more about the work of:
the Hearing Impairment Team and the Visual Impairment Team.
The authority also provides for three resourced bases.
Primary Deaf Resource Base
This base is located in Knotty Ash Primary school. It provides for the needs of pre-school and primary profoundly deaf children who require extra support.
Secondary Deaf Resource Base
This base is located in Broadgreen High school. It provides for the needs of secondary profoundly deaf pupils who require extra support.
Secondary Visually Impaired Base
This base is located in Gateacre Community Comprehensive School. It provides for the needs of secondary visually impaired pupils who require more intensive support.
Contact details:
Service Manager: Judith Wilson
Tel: 0151 225 6280
mailto: judith.wilson@liverpool.gov.uk
Admin Officer: Lynn Newton
Telephone No. 0151 225 6264
Fax: 0151 225 6268
mailto: lynn.newton@liverpool.gov.uk
Useful links for hearing impaired:
National Deaf Children's Society
http://www.ndcs.org.uk
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People
http://www.rnid.org.uk
The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf
http://www.BATOD.org.uk
Deafness at Birth
http://www.deafnessatbirth.org.uk
Early Years Support Programme
http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/earlyyears/earlysupport/
Useful links for visually impaired
Royal National Insitute of the Blind
http://www.rnib.org.uk
Liverpool Voluntary Society for the Blind
http://www.lvsb.co.uk/
National Blind Children's Society
http://www.nbcs.org.uk
Merseyside Society for the Deaf
www.msdp.org.uk
Henshaws
www.henshaws.org.uk