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Professional training with a personal approach

Ruth Merritt qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) in 1982. She has worked most of her career developing specialist skills in the field of deafness.

She has worked in a range of schools, clinics and hospital settings. This has included the Great Ormond Street Hospital Paediatric Cochlear Implant Programme as the Joint Principal Speech and Language Therapist from 2002- 2011. Ruth has taught for many years on the Deafness Module at the London SLT undergraduate training courses as well the equivalent training in both Sir Lanka and Hong Kong.

Ruth Merritt is also regularly instructed as an expert witness in medico-legal cases and SEN Tribunals related to children and adults with deafness and cerebral palsy.

All courses presented by Ruth Merritt

Working with d/Deaf People

Prices from £113.30 – £475.20

Working with d/Deaf People is a modular, self-study course. Module 1 covers the basic fundamentals about deafness that all practitioners should know and understand. Modules 2-4 are progression modules for Speech and Language Therapists who want to develop specialist skills in this area.

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