Describe a typical day. Following morning meetings, specialisedequipment is checked, medication is administered and a number of pupilsare seen for monitoring purposes. The day then commences withapproximately 60 pupils having individual sessions to support theirliteracy in both English and Welsh or numeracy skills.
What other agencies and who else within your organisation do you workwith? I collaborate with staff, feeder primary schools and other outsideagencies as well as working with individual pupils or teaching.
How did you end up in the job? My career in teaching spans nearly 30years. I was a technology teacher but transferred to special educationalneeds after my daughter suffered from a hearing impairment and relatedspeech difficulties as a young child. I initially qualified as a teacherof the hearing impaired.
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