Deaf and hearing impaired children

Our sensory impairment services offer a service to all children who are hard of hearing. They also give support, help and advice to adults who are profoundly deaf and who are British Sign Language (BSL) users.

We work closely with health colleagues, particularly around pre-natal screening.  We also link in with work undertaken by education colleagues. 

Information on education and learning support services for children who are deaf and hearing impaired (opens in a new window) is also available on our website. 

Access our services

We have two teams of staff who provide these services.  All team members are trained in BSL and deaf awareness.  To access our services teams can be contacted in the following ways:

Call Derbyshire
All Call Derbyshire contact numbers (opens in a new window) are available here.

North of the county - Chesterfield
Tel: 01246 347777
Textphone: 01246 277249

South of the county - Derby
Tel: 01332 717567
Textphone: 01332 344358

Interpreters
We will provide sign language interpreters, on request, at any point of contact when you want to access any of our council services.  Please use the numbers given above if you need to do this. 

You can also contact our interpreter service, which is provided by Communication Unlimited, direct in these ways:

Tel: 01332 369920
Minicom: 01332 369435
Fax: 01332 369459
SMS: 07990 902656

Who else can help?
A number of other organisations also have information available on their websites. These are listed in the Related Links section below.

Related documents

The following document is in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)

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