Stakeholder engagement regarding audiology and hearing: FOI release

Information requested

A complete list of the organisation names of all private and independent sector stakeholders, including audiology services providers and representative bodies, that the Scottish Government and Ministers has met with to discuss audiology and ear/hearing care in Scotland in the past 12 months, both independently and through bilateral and group meetings, including improvement work and the outcomes of the Independent Review of Audiology Services in Scotland.

Response

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested in the list below:

• Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults (ATLA)
• Auditory Verbal UK
• British Academy of Audiology
• British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD)
• British Deaf Association Scotland
• Chair and Vice Chair, Independent Review of Audiology Services in Scotland
• Deafblind Scotland
• Deaf Action
• Deaf Links
• Disability Agenda Scotland
• Donaldson’s School
• Dumfries and Galloway Hard of Hearing Group
• Educational Institute for Scotland (EIS)
• Families Failed by Lothian Audiology Action Group (FLAAG)
• Forth Valley Sensory Centre
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Hearing Link / Hearing Dogs for the Deaf
• Heriot Watt University
• National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS)
• North East Sensory Services (NESS)
• Queen Margaret University
• Respect Me
• Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy (RCSLT)
• Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)
• Scottish Sensory Centre
• Sense Scotland
• Sensory Impairment Support Group (SISG)
• Skills Development Scotland
• South Lanarkshire (DEAF)
• Signature
• Specsavers
• Tayside Deaf Forum
• The Association for Primary Care Audiology Providers (NCHA)
• The Association of Sign Language Interpreters (ASLI)
• The ALLIANCE
• The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland
• The Scottish Mental Health Services for Deaf People
• University of Oxford
• University of Edinburgh

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