HI Hearing Impaired

 

Many mainstream schools have pupils with some level of hearing impaired and there are also many additional units attached to school as well as specialist HI schools.


The range of hearing loss can vary from profound to moderate. Some children wear two post aural hearing aids and they may also use radio aid systems. Some pupils receives a dual input, ie aural and sign while other children develop orally. When signing is used is used it is BSL (British Sign Language) and the level required is usually Stage 2 and above. Sign from other English speaking countries, eg Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc is similar and users can adapt effectively.

 

 

 

 

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