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If your child is aged up to 5 years old and they have been referred for Speech and Language Therapy because they have bilateral moderate to severe/ profound sensorineural hearing loss, they will be placed on the Deafness Pathway.
We provide assessment and intervention for children with deafness up to 5 years of age. Once we receive your referral and your child is accepted into our service, we will contact you to book you on to our pathway for sessions.
This pathway includes an initial assessment with a Deafness Speech and Language Therapist followed by therapy sessions or nursery review and advice (depending on your child’s needs). Your child may also be referred on to other services if required.
Hearing aid users: If your child is a hearing aid or BAHA user, then we will offer a therapy block followed by clinic review or nursery visit. Then offer further therapy blocks/ reviews as appropriate. Review may take place in nursery if appropriate.
Cochlear Implant users: If your child is newly cochlear implanted within 1st year, we offer intensive therapy block of 4-5 weeks followed by consolidation period and then therapy block followed by consolidation period until after a year. Targets to be set over 6 months with parents and reviewed after the following 6 months. We use a Total Communication approach with Sign Supported English in our sessions.
After 1st year of post Cochlear implants: Child will be offered blocks of therapy as appropriate and reviewed in clinic or nursery.
