CYP Now - World Hearing Day: Deaf children lobby government to fund early intervention support

Deaf children and their families are urging the government to fund specialist early intervention support through the NHS and local authorities.

Beatrice Cadman attended AVUK as a child. Picture: AVUK

To mark World Hearing Day (3 March), Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK) is launching its #HearUsNow campaign calling on MPs and organisations to back investment to make auditory verbal therapy available to all deaf children.

Currently, AVUK is the only UK-based charity offering the specialist family-centred programme to support deaf children to learn to listen and speak.

Despite research from the charity showing that four out of five children who attend AVUK for two years achieve the same spoken language outcomes as hearing children, just eight per cent of 7,200 deaf children in the UK have access to this support.

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