DHICE Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children Europe 2005

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Mrs. Sue M Archbold M Phil

Sue Archbold

Education Co-ordinator
The Ear Foundation, Nottingham, UK

Sue Archbold is a teacher of the deaf by profession, and has taught in mainstream schools, schools for the deaf and units for deaf children. Sue was the teacher of the deaf of the first child in the UK to receive a cochlear implant, funded by The Ear Foundation, and began the Children’s Cochlear Implant Centre there to support profoundly deaf children with implants and their families. This led to her becoming coordinator of Nottingham Paediatric Cochlear Implant Programme, Queen’s Medical Centre, at its inception in 1989. The programme now has an international reputation for its work with families of children with implants and teachers of the deaf.

Her involvement in cochlear implantation led to an interest in establishing close educational links between cochlear implant teams in the UK and teachers of the deaf. Sue was instrumental in the development of the national guidelines for teachers of the deaf working with children with cochlear implants, now published jointly by the British Cochlear Implant Group and the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf. Sue was recently President of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf, and continues to hold an advisory role in the organisation.

In her position as coordinator, Sue also led the development of a paediatric implant database which enables biographical and outcome data to be recorded enabling the long-term effectiveness of implantation in young children to be monitored. She lectures internationally and has published widely about the implications of cochlear implantation for young deaf children, particularly in relation to education, the management of cochlear implant programmes, and multi-professional working.

She recently left her full-time role at the implant programme to concentrate on education and training about cochlear implantation, working at The Ear Foundation in Nottingham, and retaining an advisory role at the implant programme.

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