CHSWG
Have you ever heard of CHSWG (pronounced chizzywig) ? - You haven't ?
Its initials stand for Childrens Hearing Services Working Group.
Our local group is called Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole Children's Hearing Services Working Group.
It is a working group made up of people representing all the services involved supporting hearing impaired children, including Audiologists, Hearing Support Service, Teachers of the Deaf, Speech and Language Therapists, Community Paediatricians, ENT, School Nurse, Health Visitors, NDCS, Social Services and parents. It meets twice a year and is an opportunity for all the services to highlight any problems and to keep up to date with each other. The Newborn Hearing Screening Programme has been one of the main discussion points.
CHSWG is a forum for YOU - the parents of hearing impaired children to be able to voice any problems you have and this is done through your parent representative.
Your parent representatives are Shirley Sorbie - 01202 571089, Kelly Sherman - 01202 601284 and Peter and Lesley Copestake - 01202 330182. If you have anything you would like to bring to the attention of CHSWG please contact them.
Forthcoming meetings:
Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Tuesday 10th May 2011
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
To give you an idea of the issues they discuss the minutes of the last meetings are available by clicking the link below:
Minutes CHSWG meeting 9.11.2009
Minutes CHSWG meeting 11.5.2010
CHSWG NEED PARENT REPRESENTATIVES IN THE WEST OF DORSET so if you are interested in getting involved and want to know more about it please contact Shirley on 01202 571089.
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