The DES should prescribe a minimum range of qualifications for teachers who are teaching Deaf and hard of hearing children in mainstream and specialist education settings, to include minimum standards of competence in the use and teaching of ISL.
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This should incur no additional cost to the State.
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4.2.8
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Programmes of ITE should include a compulsory module on the education of children with special educational needs which addresses the particular needs of Deaf and hard of hearing children.
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The module should form an integral part of the extended programmes for ITE stipulated by the Teaching Council and will not incur additional expenditure to the State beyond that already committed to these programmes.
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Current post-graduate programmes in special education should include a compulsory element on the education of children across disability categories, including Deaf and hard of hearing children.
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It is intended that existing post-graduate programmes should include this compulsory module, at no additional cost to the State.
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Programmes of initial and CPD for teachers should include a focus on effective approaches for the teaching of literacy and numeracy to all pupils and address how these approaches can be differentiated for Deaf and hard of hearing pupils.
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This proposal is in line with the recommendations of the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People (DES, 2011c) and should not incur expenditure additional to that already committed to the implementation of this strategy.
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