CPD documents in the Document Library

CPD for Specialist Teachers has its own section in the NatSIP document library. You can find the CPD section here.

RNIB is pleased to announce that their CPD sessions for education professionals for the summer term 2024 are now open for booking:

Training for professionals supporting learners with VI | RNIB

The charity, Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK) is a provider of training for speech and language therapists, audiologists and teachers of the deaf working in early intervention. As well as introductory courses, their 6-month online Foundation course ‘Working through audition’ is designed to focus primarily on equipping professionals with the core skills needed to develop auditory practice when working with preschool children and young babies and their families.

AVUK can provide training bursaries for TODs and SALTs working in the UK as well as tailored in-service training. For more information please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or contact Noel Kenely @This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

The BATOD Audiology Refreshers publication is now live on the BATOD website. The publication is free to access and open to any professional linked to deaf education to explore https://www.batod.org.uk/resources-category/audiology-refreshers/

The BATOD Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of their latest MESHGuide: Understanding Hearing Loss.

The guide has been created as a direct response to the COVID19 pandemic. Information about hearing loss has been collated to support Teachers of the Deaf in their delivery of information, support and guidance to families, nurseries and schools, new to hearing loss.

With colour photographs and links to videos throughout, the guide can be used to provide training remotely, via screen sharing or talking through in a telephone conversation.

Information is provided in 5 sections:

  • Nature of hearing loss
  • Degree of hearing loss  (including impact for speech access)
  • Amplification
  • Ways to help, including ‘Top Tips’
  • Links to DLA information, NDCS booklets and resources

http://www.meshguides.org/guides/node/1948?n=1947  At a click of a button, the guide is translated into 104 languages, promoting equal access for all families.

The full range of Mesh Guides that are available can be found at:  http://meshagain.meshguides.org/articles/category/deafeducation/

The  BATOD Foundation have available training resources through MESHGuides - available via www.meshguides.org.

MESHGuides are being developed that link topics together and provide evidence which offers teachers a short-cut to assist in the laborious challenge of researching to collect data. For example, the Autism and deafness MESHGuide (MG) has a comprehensive reference list relating to ‘autism’, ‘deafness’ and ‘deafness and autism’. With all the information available referred to in the MG listed in a bibliography/references list. All MGs have a similar structure providing background and research and each MG has a grid of boxes, each with a clear concise title. The websites referred to will often provide other information that may be useful now and in the future one.

UCL research, undertaken for Whole School SEND (WSS) during 2018 -19 was published on the nasen SEND Gateway as A Study of the Drivers, Demand and Supply for Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) - Related Continuing Professional Development (CPD).  The report can be accessed at https://www.sendgateway.org.uk/whole-school-send/send-research/

This research was previously known as 'gap analysis' and reported on the drivers and supply of training within the education sector across SEND.

Following findings about training available to schools for Sensory Impairment, NatSIP was contracted by DfE and WSS to complete a further investigation specifically about SI. This work was undertaken during March 2019 and the report submitted to DfE. It is now available and can be found in the document library.

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The NDCS have issued an updated edition of their guide document Assessments of deaf children and young people. 

The resource is intended to support Teachers of the Deaf to carry out specialist assessments of deaf children in the areas of communication, language, functional listening, literacy, mathematics, cognitive development and social/emotional development.

It will also be of interest to all those involved with assessing the needs of deaf children and young people – planning education support and monitoring their progress. This may include parents who want more information on the assessments used.

Given the importance of high quality assessments in improving outcomes, it will also be useful to those involved in any statutory educational assessments and plans, as well as any education support strategies required prior to statutory assessment.

The resource has three sections:

  • Part one outlines the purpose of assessments and good practice in preparing to carry out an assessment
  • Part two summarises and reviews assessments that are most appropriate for deaf children and young people
  • Part three looks at the steps to be taken following assessment, and includes case studies and examples of service practices

You can find the guidance document  through this link: www.ndcs.org.uk/assessments