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What To Do If Your Child’s Support Hours Are Cut

The parent of a deaf student emailed IDK. Her child’s secondary-school teaching support hours were cut during Transition Year, when the regional SENO said this was not the case. A deadlock had resulted, so our advice was sought. Here’s what we suggested. Get a statement of resource teaching &/or SNA hours at the start. All

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13 years ago 3 Comments Hearingaccessible, assistant, coaching, community, cuts, deafness, DES, education, English, family, HSE, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, irish, learn, learning, literacy, local, mainstream, NCCE, NCSE, needs, parent, parents, preschool, regional, resource, school, schools, SEN, SENO, sensory, sign, SNA, special, speech, student, students, support, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, training, tuition, tutoring, volunteer

Proposed SNA Cuts – Just The Tip Of An Iceberg?

[Published in 2011] Proposed cuts to special-needs assistant (SNA) and resource teaching hours got extensive coverage in the recent national press, after the government announced a reduction in education support services from September 2011. Some deaf children (on a needs basis) have access to SNAs at mainstream schools, maybe with weekly resource-teaching hours approved by

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14 years ago 5 Comments Education, HearingBarnardos, case, challenge, classes, classroom, court, courts, cuts, education, fergus finlay, hours, inclusion, inclusive, issues, legal, obligations, resource, revision, Ruari Quinn, SENO, SNA, supports, teach, teacher, teaching, tutor, tutoring

Deaf Children In The UK Face Teaching Cuts

Yesterday, an article on mainstream supports for deaf children in the UK (by Cathy Heffernan) ran in the UK’s Guardian broadsheet newspaper. Deaf pupils will bear the brunt of education cuts Eighty-five per cent of deaf pupils in the UK are mainstream-educated at present. Like in Ireland, these pupils, their families and school teachers draw vital

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