The Hearing Impaired Unit is based at Westcliff Primary School.
Its work involves:
- Placements for pupils with a hearing impairment from 3 to 11 years old (Foundation, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2)
- For pupils who require an intensive level of support to access the National Curriculum
- Two sound proof rooms for individual and small group work
- Inclusion in mainstream classes
- Flexible programmes of support
- Specialist speech and language teaching from a qualified teacher of the deaf who is based in the Hearing Impaired Unit
- In class support from a specialist teaching assistant
- Language assessment
- Planning and delivery of individual speech and language programmes
- Modifications to mode of access and methods of assessment
- Support for parents and families
- Assess to regular speech therapy in the Hearing Impaired Unit
- The pre-school Music Therapy Group meets in the Hearing Impaired Unit.