Welcome to our Hearing Resource Base
All children in the HRB (Hearing Resource Base) have EHC (Educational Health Care) plans based on their own communication and learning needs. The children are encouraged to develop their language and communication, both spoken English and Sign Supported English, in all aspects of the daily life at school. The children’s day is split between work in the HRB and in their mainstream class. They are supported in their mainstream class by staff from the HRB. We provide the children with exciting hands on opportunities to involve them in their learning and to encourage communication at all times. The mainstream children and teachers at school are eager to learn signing to communicate with the hearing impaired pupils and the hearing children and teaching staff in Howes Community Primary School have access to free BSL (British Sign Language) tuition from a deaf adult sign language tutor.
The HRB is staffed with specialist Teachers of the Deaf and Teaching Assistants, provided by Coventry Sensory and Physical Support Service (SPSS). The HRB works closely with other agencies to support the children’s needs including Sensory and Physical Support Service, Specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Cochlear Implant Teams and Coventry Audiology Service. Parents are invited into school for parents evening but also have annual reviews every year to review the child’s EHC plan.
Children are usually referred to the school through the SPSS.
To find out what the children in the HRB have been up to, please click on the link below: