last updated Thu 17 Apr 08
Regional Teaching Services
The Centre employs itinerant ResourceTeachers of the Deaf (RTOD) to support deaf and hearing-impaired students in mainstream schools throughout the South Island and the lower half of the North Island in the following centres:
- Gisborne
- Napier
- New Plymouth
- Wanganui
- Palmerston North
- Levin
- Masterton
- Wellington
- Nelson
- Christchurch
- Timaru
- Dunedin
- Invercargill
To access itinerant ResourceTeacher of the Deaf services contact the local Adviser On Deaf Children.
They make regular visits a specified number of times each week to support students' classroom programmes. The support offered includes:
- Assisting in the planning of I.E.P. goals for students and in the implementation of I.E.P. goals through individual tuition and in-class support
- Applying, modeling and reinforcing a range of specialist communication strategies and techniques
- Checking students' assistive listening devices
- Organising and participating KIT (Keep In Touch) Days