1. Deaf Education in the Educational Studies Department
Rachel O’Neill
25th January 2010

2. My role: 4 days per week Teaching undergraduates BEd primary
Organising and teaching Postgraduate Diploma Deaf Education
Supervising MEd / MSc students
Research

3. Changes to PG Diploma
Generic Working Together becomes Collaborative Working
Still 5 Deaf Education Courses
Deaf Studies becomes 10 credits, not 20
Additional 10 credit course in Research Methods

4. Changes to PG Diploma
Language, Literacy and Communication: literacy part is moved to Curriculum course
Accessing curriculum and assessment has new name and jointly taught with EAL teachers: Promoting Achievement and Curriculum Access for Bilingual and/or Deaf Learners
Audiology: Log is now 50% of assessment

5. Placement course Second year of placement course 2009-10
Internal placement 4 weeks & 2 visits
External placement 3 weeks & 1 visit
Evaluation now going on
Please feed back comments and ideas

6. Deaf Achievement Scotland
Funding from Nuffield Foundation £143,000
February January 2011
Dr Martha Whiteman appointed
Research team: Rachel O’Neill, Prof. Marc Marschark, Dr Martha Whiteman

7. Reference group First meeting Monday 15th February
Representative from Heads of Service Forum
Also reps from NHS, BATOD, NDCS, SDYA, Moray House
The group will advise the research team and meet 4 times

8. First Phase of Research
Ethical clearance
SQA results in database
Explore existing ADPS database
Draft pupil questionnaire ( year olds)
Draft teacher questionnaire (for pupils aged )

9. PhD research Modifying language for deaf learners 14 - 25 year olds
Mainstream settings
Phase 1: collecting examples of before and after modified text
Phase 2: Focus groups with ToDs and CSWs
Phase 3: Online questionnaire for pupils

10. Development of a PG Certificate
Early Years work from SSC
Collaboration with QMU
Views from forum