The Cleary Centre

THE CLEARY CENTRE - A unique LEA Primary Hearing Resource Base and Assessment Centre

The Cleary Centre is a Somerset County Council LEA resource based at Holy Trinity Primary School, Taunton to support deaf children in the West Somerset area.

It is unique because, in addition to providing an acoustically favourable learning and listening environment the Cleary Centre houses a paediatric family friendly assessment room which is used by Health and Educational Audiologists as well as ENT and Cochlear Implant specialists.

All staff at the Centre are qualified teachers of the deaf and specially trained support assistants. School staff have many years experience teaching deaf children and are keen to include these youngsters into their learning groups.

The deaf children who come to this school have access to the most recent amplification technology including digital hearing aids, cochlear implants, radio hearing aids and classroom sound field systems. They are encouraged and challenged to develop their listening skills so they can take their rightful place in a speaking and listening world.

We are proud of these youngsters who show real determination to overcome some of the very demanding challenges of deafness.

The Cleary Centre was named after the first Head of Service in Somerset from 1959 - 1980, Mr. Pat Cleary.