MAGAZINE February 2003 ISSN 1366-0799 Multi-agencyMulti-agency workingworking availableavailable toto membersmembers onlyonly From your editor This was going to be the most efficiently prepared Magazine as I planned to have a real break at Christmas. Well I didn't get the break as everything seemed to slow down during December and ground to a halt just before the Christmas holiday. Some articles and items just were not available to 'drop' into the publishing programme until the very last minute ie in January. The knock-on effect of the delays has been to miss all sorts of deadlines added to which, at the proofing stage of the magazine, my laptop and the proof of this magazine were stolen from my car - so Sharon Pointeer’s article on her ICT Newspage is particularly apt. So if your Magazine is a little later than usual - I am sorry. Maybe changing the publication dates was not such a good idea after all! Certainly this will be reviewed for the coming year. There are exciting plans afoot to publish the Audiology Updates as a pack; produce a CD ROM of the Magazines 2000-2002 so that you will be able to print off pages (in colour) to laminate and use as resources; and the new Language of Examinations booklet has reached the publication stage. With a fair wind it is possible that the new items will be available by early during the summer term. The Magazine CD (£25.00) should be available by the AGM in Edinburgh…. Ann Magazine editor CONTENTS ADPS - achievements of deaf pupils in Scotland . ............... 27 Articles Multi-xxxx - What do we mean? ............................................ 2 : www.BATOD.org.uk Multi-agency working ............................................................. 4 web site The Early Support Pilot Programme....................................... 6 Our e-mail addresses are easy to remember. Vibrations ............................................................................... 7 They all end @BATOD.org.uk So the Magazine will be: Multi-agency work in the residential special school ............... 8 Working collaboratively in Scotland ....................................... 10 [email protected] SEN regional partnerships - where are they now?................. 12 (check your spelling so you don’t fall into the black hole!) SEN regional partnerships: contact details ............................ 14 Phoning 01964 544243 Anything to learn from a cochlear implant team? ................... 15 BATOD Magazine, Publications & Advertising? Synchronise the singing and dancing .................................... 18 ....PLEASE SPEAK Regular items (don’t sigh and hang up!) DCCAP - what equipment? .................................................... 24 if no-one makes it to the phone to respond Noticeboard ............................................................................ 31 LEAVE A MESSAGE ICT Newspage - watch out there is a thief about! .................. 32 or send a fax Let’s Sign - resource review ................................................... 35 or even e-mail Abbreviations in this issue ...................................................... 36 [email protected] Visit our web pages www.BATOD.org.uk BBC resources for deaf children ............................................ 37 This and That ........................................................................ 50 Need to contact BATOD? talk to General information BATOD Secretary Paul Simpson Audit of services for HI children in Wales .............................. 21 e-mail: [email protected] Time for standards - reforming the school workforce ............ 23 answerphone/fax 01494 464190 Red Nose Day ........................................................................ 52 NEC committees working for you Upper pay spine ..................................................................... 36 Association Business: BATOD CPD log evaluation ................................................... 38 Minutes of NEC Meeting 21 September 2002 centre pages Committee work ..................................................................... 39 Presidential View from the front ............................................. 1 Professional training issues ................................................... 40 What went on at NEC 7 December 2002 ............................ 2 FEAPDA - council report ....................................................... 42 Representing you ................................................................. 20 Data collection by the DfES ................................................... 43 Election Nominees ................................................................. 22 ToD - e-mail list ...................................................................... 43 BATOD UK ............................................................................ 48 NCPA report ........................................................................... 44 BATOD Wales report ..................................................... 21 NDCS Hearing Services Working Group ................................ 44 Subscription rates 2002-3 ....................................................... 55 NHSP Executive meeting ....................................................... 46 I’ve moved... notification form ................................................. 55 NHSP Education Meeting ....................................................... 47 Advertising rates .................................................................. 53 Calendar - Meetings to know about ................................... 56 Obituary Just to remind you - the term ‘deaf’ is used throughout this Professor Orin Cornett .......................................................... 53 Magazine to cover the full range of hearing loss. Tom McClaren MBE ............................................................... 54 Cover picture BATOD UK BATOD works with many agencies throughout the UK representing all Teachers of the Deaf. The map shows the approximate areas covered by the committees although members may elect to which area they belong. The outline of the map is from EnchantedLearning.com but the region outlines and colour changes are editorial. View from the front.... A couple of years ago sidelined as difficult, expensive or some other BATOD celebrated its excuse will be used. The challenge which now silver jubilee. We marked faces us is how to retain our specialism, credibility the event by looking back and identity as a profession, whilst adapting some of at changes that had taken the aspects of our traditional role, to respond to the place in 25 years and new demands being made of us. those changes have continued into the 21st Having set ourselves the goal of 'Excellence in Deaf century. The landscape of Education' BATOD, as an association, must also deaf education is now face the challenge of change. With the help of very different and the Trevor Harrison, a consultant in financial planning profession is evolving to reflect changing needs. In we are being encouraged to examine both what we many ways we have been pioneers of an education do and the way we do it. Trevor has highlighted the system that is only now fully endorsing the notion of fact that BATOD works almost exclusively for the inclusion. For deaf children the advancement of good of the public as a whole and there is little or no hearing aids, the introduction of FM systems, our material benefit to members individually (despite the improved understanding of language development huge amount of 'professional' advice to our and the advent of cochlear implants have all membership!!). One possible outcome therefore, increased our expectations of educational and maybe an application for charitable status which lifestyle outcomes. This has been supported and could have a number of important implications for encouraged by Teachers of the Deaf who have us. It could extend our funding routes and thereby moved as a consequence to develop methods of allow us to better capitalise on volunteers' time, working which have promoted these outcomes. experience and enthusiasm and so allow us to be more creative in the pursuit of our goal. Now we are finding that the goalposts are moving again. Identification of deafness at or near birth, Change brings with it both threats and opportunities digital hearing aids and early cochlear implantation and I believe that BATOD can indeed evolve through will all combine in the inclusion climate to foster a metamorphosis towards being a relevant butterfly generation of deaf children who are seamlessly rather than disappearing slowly as a redundant integrated into their families and local communities. dinosaur. Utopia? Well maybe but for many children this is already a reality and the support they need from specialist teachers and support assistants is being David questioned and we may well be faced with increasingly having to defend our role. a growing European organisation for Teachers of the Deaf I am the first to argue that the body of knowledge and combined wealth of experience is essential to BATOD’s rôle: biggest member of the federation ensure that deaf children and their families continue BATOD Secretary Paul Simpson now Vice to access the education system in an optimal way. President We must, however, be clear that it is unlikely that we BATOD to host 2003 Congress - prestige for will be able to continue exactly as we have in the BATOD and UK all members of BATOD may attend past. The drive to include all children in the mainstream process will eventually mean that Will