Sarah Beazley

Sarah has worked with deaf people since 1983. She organised a specialist service in Leeds and then worked at Leeds Polytechnic, Manchester Polytechnic and Manchester University as a lecturer and clinician. She was a Speech Therapy Advisor at the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) for a period, and has been regular tutor on Introduction to Working with Deaf People: Part One and Part Two courses. From 1993 to 2006, Sarah worked in a freelance capacity, teaching in the field of deafness on a range of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses; providing clinical support and advice in Leeds and Liverpool; and teaching on a postgraduate course in Psychology and Disability Studies at The Manchester Metropolitan University. Sarah is now employed by Liverpool Community Health working as a consultant speech and language therapist across Cheshire and Meresyside and also by The University of Manchester as a senior clinical teaching fellow on the BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy course, having particular responsibility for the unit in clinical phonetics as well as contributing to the postgraduate diploma in Deaf Education. Recently, Sarah has done some volunteer work in Jordan with the Iraq Refugee Fellowship Programme http://www.academic-refugees.org/Iraq-Programme.asp and is now forging links with disability organisations in the Middle East region. Sarah is a Reviews Editor for the international journal 'Disability and Society' and has written many publications in the area of deafness and disability

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