Judy Halden

JJudy has been working with deaf people since 1978 which began by setting up a Specialist SLT Service at Heathlands School in St Albans and then developed this throughout Hertfordshire. She went on to work in Camden and Islington Specialist Service and at the RNID as Speech Therapy Advisor until 1990. She then joined the City Lit Centre for Deaf People where she ran the Speech and Language Therapy Service for both deaf and deafened adults and had the responsibility for running training courses for Deaf people and for professionals involved in working in the education of deaf people. Judy has also worked as a specialist speech and language therapist in a bilingual unit for deaf children in Luton. Qualifying as a teacher of deaf children in 2002 Judy has also worked in a variety of educational settings and is an advisor, lecturer and supervisor for the University of Hertfordshire's training course for teachers of deaf children. She is currently working for Hertfordshire's Specialist Advisory Service as a specialist teacher for hearing impairment and is an honorary research associate for UCL's Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. In addition Judy works as a freelance assessor and consultant for specialist services to deaf people both in Education Authorities and Health Trusts. Judy was involved in the development of and still teaches on the CSD Part 1 and 2 courses.

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