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Consortium for Research into Deaf Education (CRIDE) Survey 2011 – main findings:

There at least 34,927 deaf children in England.

• Around 19% have some form of additional special educational need (SEN).
• Around 6% of deaf children have at least one cochlear implant.
• 15% of deaf children communicate in part using a spoken language other than English.
9% use sign language to some extent to communicate.
• 81% of school aged children are in mainstream settings (of which 8% are in mainstream
schools with resource provision). 6% attend special schools for deaf children or independent
schools. 12% attend other special schools.
• Around 75% of deaf children identified by CRIDE do not have a statement of SEN
. 30% of services have seen a decrease in their non-staffing budget in the past year. 20% report that their eligibility criteria and/or overall quality of service has worsened.

Responses were received from 130 services in England, covering 148 local authority areas. No response was received at all from 4 services; a response rate of 97%. Whilst this response rate appears high, not all services consistently gave responses to all the questions. As such, the results should be used with caution.

DEXperience is the only national organisation for deaf children run by deaf people.

videostart Every deaf child’s wellbeing matters to us and to you!

Have you just found out that your child has a hearing loss, or would you like more information directly from deaf people who have lived the deaf experience?

DEX is a deaf-led organisation that was set up simply to support deaf people who are being educated in mainstream education, or attended mainstream schools.

You can find out why we did this on other pages, but it is sufficient to say here that we feel that there is not enough support for deaf children in education, and want to change things.

DEX uses the English dictionary definition of the term “deaf” to mean “wholly or partially without hearing” to apply to all children who have a degree of hearing loss.

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DEXperience welcomes everybody, whatever education experience you have, to support our campaign. We have adopted ‘DEXperience’ to show that we are inclusive of all.

TESTIMONIALS

DEX’s service has been fantastic! For months I had been battling with the school and authorities on my own to get the correct support my child needs as a deaf child with additional needs. I really felt I had no support and was even starting to question my own convictions. As soon as i contacted DEX I had immediate intervention and promises to meet and attend meetings were never broken. I felt I had at last professional support and someone who completely understood my child’s case. The support was empowering and I know without it I would have a had more of battle in fighting for my child’s needs. A huge thank you! (Parent of deaf child).

DEX has just supported us through a difficult appeal in order to get the school placement we wanted, and helped us to win our case! We will always appreciate DEX’s input. (Parent of deaf child).

When I was being bullied, DEX came to my school and taught deaf and hearing children not to bully children in school. The bullies didn’t bother me after that. Also, my school had a box for children to put messages in if they were being bullied, and this was part of the policy. Thank you DEX. (Deaf young person).

DEX came to give a very powerful talk to us about the effects of mainstream education on deaf children – I had no idea that it was so difficult. It has made me realise, and think about how I will make sure they are included in future. (Trainee mainstream teacher).

 

You can purchase DEX’s books from Action Deafness Books:  

 

 

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