Currents services for HI Children - Appendix 1: Meetings

Date/Time	Agency	Key People	Focus of Discussion
Monday	Karya Mulia	Nurhadi (Teacher	Challenges for Karya Mulia with the
21/11/11	School	of the Deaf)	move to inclusive schooling. Positioning as a provider of both academic and vocational (including printing) training. Provider of support to teachers in inclusive schools Provision of early intervention from age 2-3 years Policy to emphasize oralism for all children – but only 10% of children have hearing aids. Sign language from year 3.
	East Java	Chair: Benny	Education Department: All regencies to
	Cooperation	Sampirwanto	have a proportion of inclusive schools.
	Affairs Bureau	Personnel representing Departments of Health, Social Welfare, Education; Universities of Surabaya and Airlangga; RSUD Dr Soetomo.	Currently only 19 Regencies have inclusive schools at ALL levels of education. Teachers from special schools currently provide guidance to teachers of disabled children in inclusive schools. Health Department: Currently there are mobile community units staffed by medical personnel which screen children in local communities and refer them to major hospitals for diagnostic assessment if required. Hearing screening is not universal but offered to children at-risk for hearing loss. Social Welfare Department: Responsible for the recruitment of the trainees to be sent to Perth
Tuesday	Office of the	Regent of Gresik	National commitment to promote
22/11/11	Regent of Gresik	and 40 staff from the Regency including school principals.	inclusive schooling for all children with special needs by 2014. Commitment to establish a Resource Centre which can provide support to children in special, inclusive and home schooling.
	Gresik	School principals	Question/Answer session
	Resource	and teachers from	About 40 principals and teachers
	Centre	schools which currently offer or soon to offer inclusive education for children with a	attended the session at the future Resource Centre. Most questions directed to members of POSH related to the need for providing training to teachers in mainstream schools on strategies for educating

		wide range of disabilities	children with disabilities.
Wednesday	Office of the	Regent of	Sidoarjo is one of the fastest growing
23/11/11	Regent of Sidoarjo	Sidoarjo and 20 staff from the Regency	Regencies in East Java with 8.3% population growth due primarily to migration. It has a commitment to establishing a Resource Centre initially focussed on providing support to hearing-impaired and deaf children and then extending support to children with other disabilities.
	Sidoarjo	Staff from the	The centre is easily accessible in a
	Resource	Regency of	main street in Sidoarjo. Given its street
	Centre	Sidoarjo	frontage, attention needs to be given to refurbishing the centre to ensure the traffic noise levels are minimised.
	Sidoarjo	Medical	Children are screened for hearing loss
	Hospital	Professionals from the hospital including Paediatrics, ENT and Gynaecology and Obstetrics	by health centre workers and teachers, and referred to the hospital’s paediatric unit. Although this is a modern hospital in many respects, it has not equipment for the hearing assessment of infants and young children
	Sidoarjo	Staff and students	The school provides education for deaf
	Special School		children from kindergarten to high
	for Deaf		school
	Children
	Sidoarjo High School (with inclusive unit)	Staff and students	This very large mainstream has school includes a unit for
	Vocational Unit	Principal and	Charity which provides vocational
	for Deaf	students	training (including printing) and
	Teenagers in		accommodation to hearing-impaired
	Gresik		and deaf orphaned teenagers and young adults.
Thursday	University of	Vice Chancellor	The University is interested in
24/11/11	Airlangga	and staff from the schools of Medicine, Science and Psychology	establishing a Master of Audiology program. It has an MOU with the University of Western Australian and is keen to approach UWA for support in the establishing a program. Airlangga needed to have preliminary discussions regarding which school a program in Audiology would be best placed.
	Dr Soetomo	Dr Nyilo	ENT Department has 17 ENT
	Hospital		specialists and 3 Audiometrists (who are employed by Kasoem).  9 Divisions including neurotology. Kasoem does all the audiometry, but 80% of children referred to the hospital cannot afford to have further testing.

			Dr Nyilo to be responsible for the initial 2 month training of Perth trainees.
	Aurica		A not-for-profit organisation initially
	Cochlear		established by parents of a profoundly
	Implant Centre		deaf child, and supported by families of recently implanted children. It provides early intervention services and uses Auditory-Verbal approaches in educating its children. Aurica is financially very limited in providing support to children and families who are unable to afford services.
Friday 25/11/11	Karya Mulia School	Nurhadi	Follow-up questions on audiology and printing.
	The Office of	Mayor of	The Mayor of Surabaya was concerned
	the Mayor of	Surabaya	that only 3 personnel from Surabaya
	Surabaya		would be sent to Perth. Given its population, she indicated she would like to send (and fund) and additional 7 people.