ABSTRACT
The reflections in this chapter are based on my experience as a teacher, advisory teacher and teacher educator in deaf education. The duration of this experience coincides with Mary Warnock’s involvement in the field of special educational needs (SEN). As she began her inquiry into provision for ‘handicapped children and young people’ I started teaching in mainstream schools. By the time the 1981 Act had been passed, I was taking up my first post in a ‘partially hearing unit’ attached to a mainstream school. It is interesting to explore changes in deaf education over these past thirty years.
