Welcome To Wirral

Education

Wirral Hearing Support Service (part of Wirral’s Special Education Support Service):

A team of teachers of the deaf & specialist teaching assistants who provide a range of support for deaf children/young people aged 0 – 19 and families from diagnosis onwards. We work in schools and homes right across Wirral, teaching deaf children and/or supporting & advising families/settings/schools about their children’s education.

Telephone: 0151 637 6165 (voice or text message)
Webpage: www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100005/200086/8/content_0000213.html

 

Wirral Parent Partnership:

Wirral Parent Partnership is an information, support and advice service for parents/carers of children with special educational needs. We enable parents/carers to become more involved in discussions relating to their children's educational development.

Telephone: 0151 647 6631/6621
Website: www.wirralparentpartnership.org.uk

 

Health

Paediatric Audiology:

The Paediatric Audiology Department provides a comprehensive service which includes screening, diagnosis and ongoing hearing aid provision from 0 - 19 years. We have a team of doctors and audiologists based at the Child Development Centre, Clatterbridge Hospital. We are part of the Wirral Services for Child Health (Wirral University Teaching Hospital).

Telephone: 0151 482 7867
Website: www.wirralhealth.org.uk/wisch

 

Speech & Language Therapy:

The specialist speech & language therapist (SALT)

provides a service in homes, schools and clinics which includes assessment, advice and intervention for deaf children in Wirral. The specialist SALT is based at St Catherine’s Hospital in Birkenhead.

Telephone: 0151 604 7280

 

Social Care

Wirral Children’s Social Care:

Where there is a need for an assessment, parents should initially contact the Central Advice & Duty Team. They will take basic information from you and pass information to the appropriate team, which will be determined by the complexity of your child’s needs. Support will generally be offered to promote a child’s identity and social inclusion, or for the parent/carer, subject to their separate needs for assistance as carers.

Telephone: 0151 606 2006

 

Connexions

Wirral Connexions Service:

Connexions can offer young people all the advice and information they need so that they can make the right choices for the future. We have teams of specially trained Personal Advisers available to give them free, confidential guidance and support on all the options available to them. The service can be available to young people with a learning difficulty or disability from the age of 13 up to the age of 25. 

Telephone: 0151 471 6020
Website: www.connexions-gmerseyside.co.uk/yp/contactus/findus/wirral

 

Equipment for the Home

Merseyside Society for Deaf People (MSDP):

MSDP can provide an assessment and provision of equipment service that will promote the independence of your deaf child. For example, alerting devices, telephone amplifiers, hearing loops and textphones. Our service in Wirral is based at The Laurie’s Centre, Claughton Road, Birkenhead.

Telephone: 0151 650 5500
Website: www.msdp.org.uk

(MSDP also runs playschemes, ‘after school clubs’ and youth clubs for deaf children & young people at its main site in West Derby, Liverpool. Tel: 0151 228 0888)

 

National Deaf Children’s Society

The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS): This is the national charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people. They provide a wide range of high quality information and advice.

Telephone: 0808 800 8880
Website: www.ndcs.org.uk

(You can also contact the Wirral branch of NDCS – Wirral DCS. Tel: 07810 355966 or 0151 606 4973 Email: wirraldcs@yahoo.co.uk)

 

Travel Passes

Mersey Travel:

If your child is eligible, the travel pass will allow you to travel free of charge on buses, trains and ferries within Merseyside at any time of day. To obtain a pass your child must be registered as severely or profoundly deaf. Please note: in all groups your permanent address must be within Merseyside.

Telephone: 0151 236 6056
Webpage: www.merseytravel.gov.uk/information_access-guide_concessionary-travel.html