Courses and events for professionals working with deaf children

Our education workshops support education professionals to build their knowledge and practice in their work with deaf children and young people.

View our full training offer for Autumn/Winter 2017/2018 here

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Our professional training courses run across the UK and support education, health and social care professionals to build their knowledge and practice in their work with deaf children and young people.

• Assessing the educational progress of deaf children and young people
• Creating good listening conditions for learning in education
• Supporting the achievement of deaf children in early year settings
• Supporting the achievement of deaf children in schools
• Supporting the achievement of deaf young people in further education
• Supporting deaf students in post-16 settings: a training day for Teachers of the Deaf

Two day non residential training.

Our two-day course for professionals working with families of deaf children aged 0 to 5 years prepares you to use our highly successful Family Sign Language Curriculum (FSLC) teaching resource.

• 5+6 June 2017 - London (cancelled)
  
• 7+8 November 2017 - Royal School for the Deaf, Derby 
  

Our Healthy Minds programme explores good emotional health and well-being for deaf young people.

Six sessions cover the following topics:

• What is a healthy mind?
• Developing good emotional well-being
• Support mechanisms and looking after your body
• Identity – Who am I?
• Owning and managing deafness
•  I’m okay being deaf

Our Deaf-friendly activities course is for leaders and coaches working with children and young people.

The 3.5 hour workshop gives professionals and volunteers the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of deafness and to learn how to genuinely include deaf children and young people in their activities.

Meeting the social care needs of deaf children 

Our one-day workshop for social workers and other professionals working to ensure deaf children get the support they need. 

• 18 July 2017 - Manchester 
• 24 January 2018 - London

Raising a deaf child can be challenging with many families needing guidance to help understand the impact deafness can have. This one-day programme gives you a wealth of ideas and strategies to improve the way you support parents and carers.

• 20 June 2017 - Birmingham
• 15 November 2017 - London
• 14 March 2018 - Cardiff

In June 2017, NDCS successfully hosted a conference for over 100 professionals who work with early childhood deafness

You can view the conference plenary presentations here: https://www.slideshare.net/NDCS

Our in-house, bespoke training builds knowledge and practice to help your teams work with deaf children. Our expert facilitators can come to you to deliver a workshop tailored to your needs.

Cancelling a booking 

If the:

• Delegate cancels 10 working days or less before the planned date, a charge of 100% of the total cost will be made.
• Delegate cancels from 11 to 20 working days or less before the planned date a charge of 50% of the total cost will be made.
• Delegate cancels 21 working days or more before the planned date, no charge will be made.
  

If the delegate withdraws, they are able to nominate a substitute attendee to take their place. The delegate must inform the National Deaf Children's Society of the replacement delegate when they cancel their place. If a replacement name is not given at the point of cancellation, the booking will be released and we will be able to offer the place to a new attendee.

If you have any further questions, please contact us via 0121 234 9832 or training@ndcs.org.uk.

You can also contact us how to find out if there will be training near you or to discuss setting up a training course.