Services & Programmes - overview

A wide range of services are provided by the van Asch Deaf Education Centre in support of its region. The Centre employs a number of specialist resource staff. The Specialist Resource Team provides those professionals working with deaf and hearing-impaired students in regional settings with support in literacy, speech-language, New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and Deaf Studies. They also provide guidance to parents.

An educational audiologist based at the Centre supports audiologists in regional settings in the paediatric assessment and hearing aid fitting of deaf and hearing-impaired students. The Centre also provides a free hearing aid repair service.

The Centre is under contract to the Southern Hearing Charitable Trust to provide Cochlear Implant candidacy assessment and device programming service. The programme's Audiologist/Manager works with a Group Special Education habilitationist based at the Centre to provide the service for children in van Asch Deaf Education Centre's region. For more information about the Southern Cochlear Implant Programme visit www.scip.org.nz

The Library and Media Centre provide families and professionals with a range of book and non-book resources.

	Early Intervention	- details of the benefits of early intervention in hearing impaired and deaf children
	Base School	- details about our Primary, Middle and High Schools on campus at Sumner
	Residential Services	- details about our onsite residential services for out of town students
	Regional Teaching	- details of our regional training programmes and services outside of Christchurch
	Specialist Services	- our specialist services such as Cochlear Implant and Audiology services etc
	Resource/Technical Services	- our media centre, library, audiology, hearing aid repair, and information technology
	Cochlear Implant Programme	- Southern Cochlear Implant Programme