London and South East
Royal School for Deaf Children
Victoria Road, Margate, Kent, CT9 1NB
Telephone: 01843 227561
Fax: 01843 227637
Email: enquiries@royalschoolfordeaf.kent.sch.uk
Website: www.royalschoolfordeaf.kent.sch.uk
Residential/ day; children with severe/ profound hearing loss and
additional needs; 4-16 years with provision for older pupils at
Westgate College.
Whitefield Schools & Centre
MacDonald Road, Walthamstow, London E17 4AZ
Telephone: 020 8531 3426
Fax: 020 8527 3613
Email: sen@whitefield.org.uk
Website: www.whitefield.org.uk
Foundation special school; day; pupils with autism, speech and language difficulties, learning difficulties, multisensory impairment and PMLD; 3-19 years.
South East
West Berkshire Sensory Resource, Brookfields School
Sage Road, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 6SW
Telephone: 01189 41 08 13 (resource base)
01189 42 13 82 (school office)
Email: mail@sensoryresource.org.uk
The West Berkshire Sensory Resource was established in 2002 in partnership with the RNIB. It is based at Brookfields special school, which caters for pupils aged two and a half years to nineteen years, who have complex needs. The Sensory Resource currently takes 20 pupils. The criteria for placement in the Sensory Resource is that pupils must have severe, profound or degenerative visual/ hearing loss (or deaf/blind) in conjunction with significant additional needs. All pupils are class-based. They are supported individually both in the Resource base and within class.
South West
Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education
50 Topsham Road, Exeter, EX2 4NF
Telephone: 01392 27 26 92
Fax: 01392 43 11 46
Email: info@exeterdeafacademy.ac.uk
Day/ weekly boarding; deaf-blind pupils and some with additional learning difficulties; 5 to 16 years and over.
The Knowle-dge
Leinster Avenue, Knowle, Bristol, BS4 1NN
Telephone: 0117 353 2011
Email: knowle-dge@bristol.gov.uk
Day; some pupils with physical difficulties and complex needs; moderate learning difficulties; emotional and behavioural difficulties; 10 to 18 years.
Midlands
Exhall Grange Specialist School and Science College
Easter Way, Coventry, CV7 9HP
Telephone: 024 7636 4200
Fax: 024 7664 5055
Email: admin7000@we-learn.com
Warwickshire LEA; day; some pupils with physical difficulties, 2 to 19 years.
North East
Northern Counties School
Tankerville Terrace, Jesmond, NE2 3BB
Telephone: 0191 281 5821
Fax: 0191 281 5060
Email: info@northerncounties.newcastle.sch.uk
Day/ boarding; children with complex needs, hearing and visual impairment, physical disabilities, autism and communication difficulties. 6 to 19 years.
North West
The Seas Shell Trust
Stanley Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 6RQ
Telephone: 0161 610 0100
Fax: 0161 610 0101
Email: info@seashelltrust.org.uk
Day/ boarding; deaf-blind unit, all pupils have additional severe and complex learning difficulties; 5 to 21 years.
Hazelwood School
50 Dumbreck Court, Glasgow, G41 5DG
Telephone: 0141 427 9334
Fax: 0141 427 2859
Email: headteacher@hazelwood.glasgow.sch.uk
Hazelwood School opened in August 2007. It replaces both Kelvin and Carnbooth schools. Hazelwood caters for pupils with severe learning difficulties who may have both hearing and visual loss as well as physical, communication, and medical difficulties. The pupils are aged from 2-18 years.
Wales
Heronsbridge School
Ewenny Road, Bridgend, South Wales, CF31 3HT
Telephone: 01656 65 39 74
Fax: 01656 76 62 70
Email: headteacher.heronsbridge@bridgend.gov.uk
Bridgend County LEA; day/ residential school for pupils with learning difficulties; some autistic pupils; 3-19 years.
Further / Higher Education
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