Support for your child and/or young person from LHSS

To understand and accept their hearing loss or deafness.
Maintenance of assistive technologies and promote their good use.
Support, develop and monitor listening skills, language and learning.
Provide opportunities to meet deaf peers and other role models.
To support your child's social and emotional wellbeing, enabling them to become confident independent individuals.

Advice and information on the child or young person’s sensory impairment and its implications.
Advice and information on assistive technologies.
Parent groups to provide opportunities to meet other families with their deaf child.
Provide advice, support and information on audiology, language development and communication choices, for example, use of British Sign Language.
Promote language development to ensure good communication and interaction.
Support and advice on statutory assessment.
Advice and points for consideration in choosing appropriate educational placements.
Liaison with other professionals in education, health, social care and voluntary organisations.

Provide training, advice and support to staff on enabling access to the national curriculum and inclusion in all aspects of school life.
Track and monitor listening, language and learning.
Checking and monitoring the use of technologies in schools and settings.
Advice on room acoustics and help in developing a good listening environment.
Support for the child’s or young person’s transition to playgroups, early years, schools and post-16 settings.
Home or school liaison.

Support for your child and/​or young person from LHSS