ATLA

What are the entry requirements?

Applicants are normally expected to have five GCSE/GCE passes including two at 'A' level or equivalent qualifications (e.g. a good ONC and OND, or BEC/TEC, GNVQ, or at least one Open University full credit).

A number of audiologists, social workers, graduates and trained teachers have also attended this course and found it very useful to their work.

Exceptionally, a mature student may be admitted to the course without the minimum entrance requirements but entrants in this category will be expected to present evidence that they are capable of fulfilling the academic and practical demands of the course.

Admission will be by interview.

Candidates will be expected to be able to express themselves competently in written and spoken English. Candidates must have the ability to speak clearly and be lipreadable.

Candidates must also have a genuinely warm and caring attitude, and wish to help people with an acquired hearing impairment communicate more effectively.

It is important that course members enjoy helping those who are hearing impaired, and conversing with them so that they are fully understood because so many hearing impaired people have suffered by being excluded from conversation.

Applications from people with hearing impairment are welcomed. Applications are welcomed from people with a hearing impairment regardless of the severity of the impairment. A loop system is normally used throughout the course and all speakers are requested to use clear speech. This course has been developed by a course team which has a majority of people who are hearing impaired.

CATS points

This course carries 120 CATs points at first degree level.