Ruth Merritt

Ruth has worked with deaf people since she began her career in 1981. She set up a Specialist Service in Greenwich and in 1986 began work on the Cochlear Implant Research Programme at UCH as well as working with congenitally deaf adults. Since 1987, Ruth has worked as a freelance consultant in the field of deafness. She has worked for City University and UCL as a clinical tutor and lecturer both on the undergraduate courses and on City’s MSc/ACS: Speech and Language Therapy with Deaf People, as well as being the course co-ordinator for the ACS. Ruth has worked for many years in both Greenwich and Bexley in a variety of clinical settings with all ages of deaf children, and in addition acts as a consultant for a number of Health Districts advising them on aspects of their service for Deaf People. She has been involved with the development and teaching of both the PETAL and the Introduction courses since 1985. Ruth has taught both in Sri Lanka and in Hong Kong.

Ruth began work at Great Ormond Street Hospital Paediatric Cochlear Implant Programme as the Joint Principal Speech and Language Therapist in 2002. After nine years she left her post there in April 2011 to become freelance again in the field of training and management as well as providing expert witness opinion with medico-legal cases in the area of deafness.

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