Watch: BBC video showing impact of government cuts to support for D/deaf children

This is horrendous! Every child should have equal opportunities to achieve. Why should being deaf hold a child back from accessing their education in the same full manner as a hearing child? It has been hard enough to be a deaf child myself in mainstream school and a complete utter relief when I went to a school for the deaf in my secondary years. I went from being very quiet and withdrawn wall flower to becoming a lively chatty child being able to at long last understand everything at school. It was fantastic plus I had proper friends at long last as we were all the same and understood the difficulties of being deaf. The quality of teaching for the deaf specifically makes a huge difference. Normal teachers have to be trained and they haven’t enough hours in a day as it is to cope with 30 plus kids in a class to make special provisions for the deaf child so invariably a deaf child will get lost frequently in what is being taught. They can’t participate in group sessions properly and so on.
It is well documented that if a child with normal hearing is withheld from learning become retarded over time as their brains aren’t being simulated. Just think of the effect upon the deaf! No wonder in the past that the term deaf and daft came into being. Deaf children need desperately extra help and support in order to become valued people in the future rather than burdens because of the lack of quality education that they should have had. There should be equal opportunities!
This will increase mental illnesses arising from the difficulties of being deaf hugely. It’s big enough as it is without making the situation worse. Cutting help for the deaf in education will mean more money will be needed to treat those later on in life! That’s not saving money in the long run!