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Itinerant Resource Teachers

Approximately 4% of hearing children have a permanent hearing loss. Hearing loss can have implications for language and social/emotional development and can adversely affect academic functioning. To ensure that these children achieve their optimum performance, teachers of the deaf are available to assist schools and parents.

The aims of the itinerant resource teacher services are:

* To minimise the effects of hearing impairment and maximise educational opportunity for hearing impaired children in the school of their choice.
* To provide support to both family and school from age of diagnosis to grade 12.
* To provide a collaborative, flexible model in which families and schools have significant input into the design of the servicing model that best meets their needs and to provide a program that matches and complements the particular teaching style and classroom organisation of the individual teacher.

An itinerant resource teacher will:

* Provide detailed profiles of a child's current level of functioning and needs.
* Provide and/or facilitate professional development for teachers, parents, aides, etc.
* Assist in developing individual learning programs.
* where appropriate, provide parents and teachers with
     � advice on hearing aid management
     � advice on classroom strategies
     � information regarding educational and social implications for children       with a hearing impairment
     � support in the delivery of the regular classroom program
     � information relating to enhancing opportunities for language
      acquisition and extension
* Where appropriate, provide students with support in
     � language and communication skills
     � auditory training
     � literacy skills
     � concepts dealing with subject specific language

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