Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 114118
Hearing Impairment: Children
Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 4 March 2026
Question
Dr Luke Evans
Conservative — Hinckley and Bosworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made recent progress on developing national guidance for Auditory Verbal therapy for deaf children.
Answer
Dr Zubir AhmedIntegrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of services to meet the needs of their local populations, including services for non-hearing children.Auditory verbal therapy (AVT) is one type of therapy to support childre...
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