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How to improve parental confidence in the education system? 2 comments

Ian Noon wrote 1 week ago: That’s the question the Lamb Inquiry is currently looking at since last year after being asked … more →

Tags: deaf children, Lamb Inquiry, parental confidence, sen, SEN Code of Practice, Special Educational Needs

New sign language project launches1 comment

Ian Noon wrote 3 weeks ago: Back in February 2008, Malcolm Bruce MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness in W … more →

Tags: british sign language, BSL, Communication, DCSF, deaf children, Department for Children Schools and Families, Diana Johnson, family sign language, I sign

Support for deaf children post 16

Ian Noon wrote 4 weeks ago: I got an email earlier this week from a father of a deaf son, offering to act as a case study for ND … more →

Tags: A-Levels, Campaigns, Case Study, deaf children, Further Education, hearing impaired services

Celebrity endorsement of NDCS's acoustics campaign

Ian Noon wrote 1 month ago: In a quiet moment in the office many months back, I was daydreaming about how great it would be if w … more →

Tags: deaf children, Channel 4, acoustics, kevin McCloud, Grand designs

NDCS uncovers damning evidence on acoustics in schools

Ian Noon wrote 1 month ago: Even though the Government is aiming to build or refurbish thousands of new schools, it has done ver … more →

Tags: deaf children, Inclusion, acoustics, schools, Design

Data on how deaf children are doing at school4 comments

Ian Noon wrote 2 months ago: Apparently, there are lies, damned lies and statistics. And then there’s a new category: figur … more →

Tags: Campaigns, deaf children, Education, Data, statistics, achievements, GCSE's

Gagging charities "political" messages2 comments

Ian Noon wrote 2 months ago: Not contenting with doing a review of parental confidence in provision for children, being chair of … more →

Tags: Charities, communications act, RNID, political adverts, Brian Lamb

Catch 22 as NDCS challenges Government officials on acoustics

Ian Noon wrote 2 months ago: Attended a meeting at the Department for Children, Schools and Families today about acoustics. It we … more →

Tags: acoustics, Building Bulletin 93, DCSF, deaf children, Department for Children Schools and Families, fm systems, Microphones, Sounds Good, Testing

Have you contacted your MP yet? Reminder no.2

Ian Noon wrote 2 months ago: When we met with Iain Wright, the Minister responsible for building regulations, earlier this week, … more →

Tags: Campaigns, deaf children, acoustics, Sounds Good, MP, Iain Wright

NDCS meetings with Ministers and MPs1 comment

Ian Noon wrote 2 months ago: I will need to get my suit out this week… We try to meet with MPs regularly to keep them infor … more →

Tags: Campaigns, deaf children, Special Educational Needs, John Bercow, acoustics, Sounds Good, Communities and Local Government, Phil Hope, Ann Keen

MPs debate deaf children and the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Ian Noon wrote 3 months ago: MPs have now gone through the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning (ASCL) Bill, line by li … more →

Tags: deaf children, MPs, House of Commons, Parliament, sen, Special Educational Needs, acoustics, Teacher training, OfSted

NDCS interview with Shameless deaf actor

Ian Noon wrote 4 months ago: The NDCS website has an interview with Louis Kissaun, the actor who plays Danny, the new deaf charac … more →

Tags: deaf, Shameless, deaf character, danny, Louis Kissaun, Interview

DCSF consultation convulsions vol. 2: Children and Young People's Workforce

Ian Noon wrote 4 months ago: A second consulation that I’ve been working on is the Children and Young People’s Workfo … more →

Tags: children and young people's workforce, communication support workers, Consultation, DCSF, deaf children, Department for Children Schools and Families, Teacher training

DCSF consultation convulsions vol. 1: 21st century schools1 comment

Ian Noon wrote 4 months ago: Every now and then, the Department for Children, Schools and Families suffers a consultations convul … more →

Tags: deaf children, Consultations, Department for Children Schools and Families, DCSF, acoustics, 21st century schools

Thinking up a name for a campaign on acoustics...3 comments

Ian Noon wrote 5 months ago: NDCS has long been planning a campaign on the quality of acoustics in schools, but one of the tricki … more →

Tags: Campaigns, acoustics, schools, Sounds Good

Newborn hearing screening programme on See Hear

Ian Noon wrote 5 months ago: See Hear did a piece about the newborn hearing screening programme this week, which you can watch on … more →

Tags: deaf children, newborn hearing screening programme, NHSP, London, see hear, Deaf babies

More money for phonics... but what about deaf children? 3 comments

Ian Noon wrote 5 months ago: On Monday, the Department for Children, Schools and Families announced £9m funding for teaching phon … more →

Tags: deaf children, Department for Children Schools and Families, DCSF, Phonics

Better communication, better data and better outcomes for deaf children

Ian Noon wrote 6 months ago: Some festive good news came last week with the publication of a Government action plan on speech and … more →

Tags: deaf children, Department for Children Schools and Families, DCSF, speech and language therapy, Data, Bercow Review

Getting down with da kidz in Kidderminster

Ian Noon wrote 7 months ago: I was in Kidderminster over the weekend at a NDCS event for deaf young people. It was great fun. I e … more →

Tags: Campaigns, deaf children, Subtitles, Audiologists, LOOP SYSTEMS


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