Reference
E/SE4/3/1
Title
File including information as follows:
Date free text
1980 - 1986
Production date
From: 1980 To: 1986
Scope and Content
- notes for parents of children with impaired hearing, issued jointly by Education Department and Bedfordshire Area Health Authority (AHA) [1980];
- report of proceedings of a conference on the emotional development of hearing impaired children including: emotional development in the early years at home and nursery school (head of Hearing Impaired Service (HIS)); a child during his years at school (principal of a school for the deaf in Preston [Lancashire]); and the adolescent and young adult in the community (deputy executive officer of Alban Neve Association) [1980];
- opening of a nursery unit for hearing impaired children at St.George of England Lower School, Toddington and a special unit for profoundly deaf children at Stopsley High School, Luton [1980];
- notes of meetings between Education Department staff, AHA staff and other interested parties regarding Services for Hearing Impaired Children [1980-1983];
- annual reports and accounts of Bedfordshire region of National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) [1980];
- newspaper cutting regarding purchase by Ampthill Lions Club of a visual display unit for the partial hearing unit at Harlington Upper School [1980];
- annual report of Stopsley High School, Luton, Hearing Impaired Unit [1981];
- suggested Chief Education Officer’s (CEO's) report to Bedfordshire region NDCS annual report [1981];
- links between Bedfordshire schools catering for deaf children and social workers of the Alban Deaf Association, St.Albans [Hertfordshire]; and concern of Local Education Authority (LEA) and headteacher of Icknield High School, Luton, at proposals to change arrangements [1981];
- report of papers at conference at Bedford College of Higher Education on reading and the hearing impaired child, papers being: reading during the early years of childhood (given by two Bedfordshire teachers); reading using Signed English with severely hearing impaired pupils (given by teacher-in-charge of Stopsley High School unit); information on the County Library Service (given by Principal Library Assistant); and methods and materials to help develop reading skills (given by Senior Advisory Teacher from Huntingdonshire) [1981];
- programme of one day course at Fulbrook Middle School, Aspley Guise, given by Bedfordshire region of NDCS [1981];
- South East Regional Association for the Deaf newsletter including information on Busy Bees scheme in Bedfordshire [1981];
- conclusions of a meeting to discuss hearing impaired unit timetables at LEA schools [1981];
- information on provision for hearing impaired children including units at: Stephenson Lower School, Bedford; Kingsbrook Middle School, Bedford; Icknield Infants' School, Luton; Icknield Junior School, Luton; Icknield High School, Luton; St.George of England Lower School, Toddington; Parkfields Middle School, Toddington; and Harlington Upper School [1981];
- summary of meeting at Stopsley High School, Luton, to discuss teaching French to profoundly deaf pupils [1982];
- visit of Central Television to Stopsley High School, Luton, and their subsequent donation of £50 [1982];
- debate on provision of further education for deaf children [1981-1982];
- Bedfordshire branch NDCS concern at financial cuts leading to the closure of units for children with hearing impairment [1982];
- clarification of points raised by senior social worker for the deaf regarding Education Service as part of a multi-disciplinary establishment for the deaf [1983];
- report of CEO on development of the service for hearing impaired children [1983];
- possibility of forming a youth club for hearing impaired children [1983];
- programme of visit by members and officers of Humberside County Council to Bedfordshire to see provision for profoundly deaf pupils [1982];
- recommendations to headteacher of Stopsley High School, Luton, regarding provision of profoundly hearing impaired pupils [1983];
- weekly programme of appointments and visits by officers of Education Service for Hearing Impaired Children [1983];
- considerable correspondence following letter of complaint by Education Service for Hearing Impaired Children officers at the Head of the service’s refusal to hold a meeting of all staff to discuss mutual concerns [1983]; - agendas and minutes of Hearing Impaired Service County Staff Meetings, Southern Area and Mid Bedfordshire Area Staff Meetings [1983];
- report to CEO by County Inspector (Special Education) on concerns expressed by teachers of Hearing Impaired Service [1983];
- headteacher's request for more regular visits by senior teacher responsible for signed English to Stopsley Infants' School, Luton, hearing impaired unit [1982];
- headteacher's desire to integrate hearing impaired unit at Stopsley High School into the main school [1982];
- HIS report on duties of hearing impaired unit teachers and draft guidelines on responsibilities of headteachers regarding hearing impaired units [1982];
- draft regarding provision for profoundly deaf children in units at Stopsley Infants' School, Junior School, and High School from September 1982;
- notes of meetings, reports etc. regarding provision for profoundly deaf children at Stopsley High School [1982];
- report of proceedings of a conference on the curriculum and access to Information Technology, including lectures as follows: My Idea of Perfect Educational Facilities and Support for my Type of Deafness (staff member of HIS); My Schooling and How it Could Have Been Perfected (instructor for Bedfordshire hearing-impaired pupils); Access to the Curriculum in Further Education (lecturer for hearing impaired students at Barnfield College, Luton); Special Needs (headteacher of Putteridge High School, Luton); a workshop and a presentation on the mini-fonator [1986].
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