Health resources
View our range of resources for audiologists and other health professionals on supporting deaf children.
We survey children's audiology services and parents for more information on how well they are doing, where improvements are needed and whether changes are having an impact.
In November 2015 we interviewed 10 audiology services in England that have achieved IQIPS (Improving Quality in Physiological Services) accreditation and asked them about their experiences. The booklet gives an insight into the accreditation process, tips and advice for services thinking about starting IQIPS accreditation, and what they felt the benefits were of accreditation to their service.
We’ve produced guidance for audiologists who write reports for external agencies about the needs of individual deaf children. This includes reports to inform Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, as well as assessments for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
The My Life, My Health campaign, developed by our Young People's Advisory Board, aims to improve deaf young people's experiences of health services. A range of resources were developed for the campaign including:
Our briefing provides an introduction to some of the issues and challenges that deaf young people face in moving to adult hearing services. It will be helpful to all practitioners working with deaf young people.
We’ve produced guidance for those responsible for commissioning audiology services for teenagers and young adults. It highlights the key differences between paediatric and adult audiology care, and the main challenges deaf young people meet when transitioning between services.
We worked with the Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) to create two factsheets which set out good practice on working with families where hearing loss is a) suspected or b) confirmed. These factsheets can be downloaded from the IHV website:
- Working with families when a hearing loss is confirmed
- Working with families when a hearing loss is suspected
The Institute of Health Visiting have also produced factsheets to share with parents:
Resources produced in collaboration with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Over to you was a Department of Health funded project that aimed to improve and record deaf children and young people’s experiences of audiology services.
The documents in this section are provided for reference purposes only. They are no longer up to date.
- Quality Standards in Transition from Paediatric to Adult Audiology (2011)
- Quality Standards in Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids for Children and Young People (2010)
- Quality Standards: Vision care for deaf children and young people (2009)
- Quality Standards in Paediatric Audiology: Guidelines for the early identification and audiological management of children with hearing loss (2000)
Resources produced by other organisations for audiologists and other health professionals working with deaf children.