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Deaf Quality is a social enterprise that is working in partnership with the Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers' Ltd to provide quality involvement and training with respect to deaf children's access to education.

DEX and Deaf Quality have a successful joint track record of consultancy, access auditing, and training local authorities, parents and deaf young people:

 

Assessments and reviews

  • Access auditing
  • support with School Accessibility Plans
  • support with Disability Equality Schemes
  • service assessments
  • advice and support
  • non-judgemental and confidential service appraisals
  • shared problem solving and discussion.
consultancy  

Involvement in planning and policy

  • setting of DEX's Performance Standards and Indicators
  • national and local policy reviews
  • support with internal reviews
  • mapping of health, local authority and voluntary organisations' services, including cross-cutting analysis
  • mapping of information flow to families
  • data base analysis, i.e. numbers of deaf children with SEN, from BME communities, demographic spread, age and gender etc.
  • outreach to deaf children in local mainstream schools, and involvement with deaf children and young people
  • interviews with service providers, including health professionals etc
  • workforce management and continuing professional development



Training and information

  • bespoke consultation and training sessions, using different styles, i.e. presentation, coaching, one-to-one meetings
  • training managers, mainstream teachers, specialist teachers and support staff
  • training health and social services professionals working with deaf children
  • parents' courses, particularly for those with deaf children in the Early Years
  • anti-bullying training to deaf and hearing pupils
  • anti-bullying policy for schools.

DEX uses the Learning Skills Council's Quality Improvement Toolkit for trainers' evaluation, which is to Ofsted standards.


DEX's fees are negotiable. Please contact us for further information on : info@dex.org.uk