Module 1

Title:                  The Developing Deaf Infant 0-2 years
Centre name:  Mary Hare School
Tutor's name: Sue Lewis

Description:    The aim of this course module is to place the development of communication of deaf infants within an overall framework of the developmental process.

Topics:            This module will include:  The developing child - birth to two years; The newborn baby - neurological patterning, identified competencies; Play - development, context and interaction for infants and toddlers with hearing loss; Communicative development 0-2, the first 12 months; Communicative development 0-2, the second year; Assessing and monitoring communicative development and need; A curriculum for babies - practical support mechanisms for development; Communication options for deaf children - implications for deaf babies and their families.

Course Unit Workshop: 
Compulsory Unit Workshop - October 2009

Assessment Mode: (M Level 20 CATS)
A case study

Module 2

Title:                   Early Audiological Management
Centre name:   Mary Hare School
Tutor's name:  Joy Rosenberg

Description:    The aim of this course module is to consider issues in relation to the effective prescription of and fitting of amplification aids for very young deaf children; this includes different approaches to hearing aid management and evaluation and relative roles in gaining the evidence to support these.

Topics:             This module will include:  Early auditory perception; Newborn hearing screening; Auditory brainstem response audiometry; High frequency tympanometry; Otoacoustic emissions; Selection and verification of hearing aid fitting; Steady state evoked potentials; Digital amplification and very young children; Children with auditory deficits - special populations; Monitoring useof residual hearing - practical issues in hearing aid management for very young babies.

Course Unit Workshop:
Compulsory Workshop: March 2009
Assessment Mode: (M level 20 CATS)
Either: A report based on a case study or a written assignment.

Module 3

Title:                    Working with Families and other Professionals
Centre name:    Mary Hare School
Tutor's name:    Amy Skipp

Description:      The aim of this course module is to provde an overveiw of family models and parenting styles current in the UK; to explore different models of working with the families of very young deaf children, including those refelected in Early Support (DFES) and in international initiatives.

Topics:             This module will include:  Introduction to the family systems; legislation and national initiatives in the context of early support and education of deaf children; Attachment; Case studies - LEA models of provision for hearing impaired children 0-2 years and their families; Providing information for families of deaf children 0-2 years; Stress in families - models of adjustment to a deaf child; Multi-agency working - challenges, issues.

Course Unit Workshop:
Compulsory Workshop - 8 & 9 November 2008 'Working with families & professionals' 

Either a case study or a written assignment