HIPEN FEAPDA Paul Simpson President, FEAPDA (and NEO, BATOD) Romania, May 2015

Structure of presentation Who am I? What is FEAPDA? Leonardo project and Europe Future collaboration with HIPEN?

Terminology Deaf Hearing-impaired Hard of Hearing

Who am I? Teacher in a secondary school for deaf children and housemaster for 95 deaf boys aged 11 to 19 Peripatetic Teacher of the Deaf in the Midlands University Lecturer in Birmingham training Teachers of the Deaf Head of service for deaf and vision impaired children in the South of England Head teacher of primary school for deaf children Author of educational publications for Teachers of the Deaf Teacher in a primary resource base for deaf children National Executive Officer of BATOD ….. and President of FEAPDA

BATOD National Executive Officer British Association of Teachers of the Deaf The only employee 1350 members – the majority of the ToDs in the UK

BATOD Magazine (5 times per year) Journal (4 times per year) Website Electronic forum Meetings Conferences Publications Representation

BATOD British Association of Teachers of the Deaf National College of Teachers of the Deaf and the Society of Teachers of the Deaf 1976 BATOD is the sole association for Teachers of the Deaf in the UK – promoting excellence in deaf education

BATOD website

The work of the Association works with local and national government to support Teachers of the Deaf and deaf children responds to consultations on legislation affecting deaf children gives advice on the National Curriculum and examinations aims to improve terms and condition of employment ensures that training of ToDs is of high quality organises national and local conferences and meetings keeps up to date with new technology

Consortium for Research Into Deaf Education (CRIDE) BATOD National Deaf Children’s Society (parent organisation) University researchers Head teachers of schools for the deaf Ewing Foundation (charity providing training and information about language and technology) Ear Foundation (organisation providing training and information for Teachers of the Deaf about CIs and BCHIs)

Special schools in the UK

40000 deaf children in the UK 88% in mainstream education (7% in resource bases) 2.5% in schools for the deaf 9.5% in other special schools

Teachers of the Deaf in the UK 1,437 Teacher of the Deaf posts in services across the UK plus special schools, cochlear implant centres and other settings

48000 deaf children in the UK 87% of deaf children communicate only using spoken English in their school or other education setting. Around 9% use sign language in some form, either on its own or alongside another language eg Signs Supporting English. BSL alone – around 4%

What is FEAPDA? Fédération Européenne d'Associations de Professeurs de Déficients Auditifs European Federation of Associations of Teachers of the Deaf The Federation was established in 1969 in Brussels (BE) The headquarters is now in Luxembourg

What is FEAPDA? Council and the Executive Committee Each association is represented in the Council by 2 or 3 delegates The Council meets every year The delegates are elected for a period of 4 years The Committee is composed of the President, the Vice- President, the Secretary, the Treasurer and the Congress Secretary The members of the Committee are elected for a period of 4 years The Committee meets twice a year and is responsible for carrying out the decisions of the Council

What is FEAPDA? Current members come from B, D, L, MK, NL, S, SLO, UK Represents the associations and promotes good practice Congress every two years

FEAPDA Congresses 2013 Koper, Slovenia: Supporting deaf teenagers 2011 Sint Michielsgestel, Netherlands: literacy 2009 Verona, Italy: working with families 2007 Friedberg, Germany: cochlear implants 2005 Geneva, Switzerland: ethnic minorities 2003 Cardiff, Wales, UK: behaviour problems 2001 Strasbourg, France: new challenges 1999 Orebrö, Sweden: sign bilingualism 1997 Antwerp, Belgium: early interventio n

FEAPDA Congresses 2016 Centre de logopédie Luxembourg Inclusion and what it means for deaf children Flyers

FEAPDA Congresses The aim of these biennial congresses is to spread good practice, to hear about new developments in the field and to allow Teachers of the Deaf to meet each other to discuss their work with deaf children and young people.

Leonardo da Vinci Project Researched status and qualifications Findings - different arrangements across Europe EU – standardisation of generic teacher competencies Highest common denominator Encourage wider consistency for European deaf children Experts involved from across the content

Leonardo da Vinci Consultation online Report Example Press conference – individual countries and the EU Presentation and seminar at ICED in July 2015

University of Malta

iCARE Project iCARE four-year European Marie Curie Initial Training improving Children’s Auditory REhabilitation (iCARE) i) to provide training to create a new generation of researchers capable of exploiting the synergies between different disciplines to optimise spoken communication in children with hearing impairment

iCARE Project improving Children’s Auditory REhabilitation (iCARE) ii) to combine research across disciplines to develop novel methods, training skills and procedures for improving auditory rehabilitation.

iCARE Project The range of professionals includes: professor in the department of neuroscience working in the field of audiology and speech pathology in Belgium special education psychologist ENT consultant from Greece researcher from University College London post-doctoral student from Germany employee of Cochlear

iCARE Project The range of professionals includes: audiologist researcher into binaural hearing professors of acoustics, biophysics, e-learning, electrical engineering and acoustics a developer from Ecophon

iCARE Project FEADPA provides: learning and exchange experiences through its members links to the work on the ToD competencies arising from the Leonardo da Vinci project. Part of the delivery of training in the overall project will be e-learning –n a possibility for teachers across Europe learning to improve their knowledge, skills and understanding about the education of deaf children

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