The charity said that the number of teachers of the deaf working in schools in England has fallen for the eighth time in the last decade and is now at an all-time low.
As of 2022, there were just 860 specialist teachers to support more than 45,000 deaf children in England. In contrast, in 2012 there were 1,063 of these roles to support pupils.
More posts are expected to be lost, warns the charity. It says that one in five posts have disappeared since 2012 and could be down by almost a third by 2030.
In addition, more than half teachers of the deaf are set to retire in the next 10 to 15 years. More than half of these specialist teachers are over the age of 50.
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