Resources to support Improving participation of children and young people in audiology:

First stop – The Buzz – NDCS website especially for children with sections for children aged 8-11 years and young people aged 12-18 years. Click on ‘info & advice’ section in the 12-18 years section, for information written for teenagers including the ear, hearing & deafness, hearing aids & cochlear implants, audiology & transition, as well as lots more general information about life! Plus some videos made by teenagers discussing cochlear implants, changing the tubing in their hearing aids, and using radio aids for listening to music.

Also available – comics for the under 10‘s – ‘Going to the Hearing Clinic’, ‘Harvey gets grommets’ and ‘Ali gets hearing aids’.

If you’re interested in producing information for children yourself then read Guide to Producing Health Information for Children and Young People (PIF, 2014)

For advice on making your information resources accessible to deaf children and young people download this NDCS guide How you can make your resources accessible to deaf children and young people (2013)

The NHS Youth Forum has a series of posters/leaflets on young peoples rights when using NHS services (2015)

Get your rights – an interactive website designed in partnership with children and young people to explain their rights when using the NHS. It includes videos from young people telling their stories about how the rights have made a difference to them, and messages from professionals explaining why they value young people’s rights. The website is based on research that found that children and young people did not know about the NHS Constitution and did not understand that they had rights and that this was having a negative impact on their experience of using the NHS (Council for Disabled Children and National Children’s Bureau, 2015)

Your Rights, Your Future – is a resource developed in partnership with disabled young people. It provides training and interactive activities to help young people understand the Children’s and Families Act 2014 and what is means to them (Council for Disabled Children, 2015)