Working with Deaf Children and Young People – A Guide for Practitioners

Written in an accessible, engaging format, this book equips practitioners with a range of tools to support the development of communicative independence. It includes reflective questions to consolidate knowledge. A must-read for any practitioner working with deaf children and young people and their families.

Each chapter examines the impact of deafness on key communication components and offers you opportunities to reflect on and extend your knowledge and practice in each area. A range of strategies and activities is presented to enhance the support you offer.

Key features include:

• a framework to guide you to use your knowledge and the available resources to maximum effect with deaf children and young people
• clear explanations throughout, built on wide research evidence to enable you to employ approaches that will make a difference
• adaptable checklists to provide efficient assessment to help with planning
• a focus on supporting communicative independence in collaboration with each deaf child and young person

About the authors

Sarah Beazley is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) who has worked with deaf people since 1983 and as a lecturer on undergraduate and postgraduate professional courses. She has written several publications in the area of deafness and disability and is a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh.

Judy Halden was dual qualified as an SLT and a teacher for deaf children. She worked with deaf people from 1978, setting up and running specialist speech and language services for deaf children and for both deaf and deafened adults. She was an adviser, lecturer, and supervisor on the Hertfordshire University course for teachers of deaf children, as well as an honorary research associate and lecturer at University College London’s Department of Psychology and Language Sciences.

Associated training

This book is a perfect companion resource for the Working with d/Deaf People course written by the same authors. It is a modular self-study course. Module 1 is for practitioners who work in a public-facing role. It also forms a revision module for Speech and Language Therapists. Modules 2-4 are progression modules for Speech and Language Therapists only.

Please note: This resource can be purchased through Course Beetle when booking on to associated training, or as an individual order via the purchase tab.