Cat Robbins - The Sound Teacher, London UK

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Cat Robbins - The Sound Teacher, London UK

The Sound Teacher provides professional support to infants, children, adolescents, adults and seniors. The Sound Teacher works with clients of any age to establish specific developmental, learning, academic or personal challenges, and to discuss expectations and outcomes.

The Sound Teacher – Who can benefit?

Listening distortions can occur for many reasons: repeated past ear infections/glue ear, congestion/allergies, and trauma. Listening distortions are also associated with language, processing, memory and attention difficulties, dyslexia, ADHD and predominantly inattentive, anxiety, autism and social and communication difficulties.

The Sound Teacher can offer help and advice with education and learning challenges, attention, balance and control, as well as primitive reflexes and reflex integration.

The Sound Teacher is a Qualified Teacher of Deaf Children and Young people (QToD) and can support in understanding the implications of hearing loss with the Deaf learner, parents and families, teachers, and all involved agencies especially in the context of education.

Certified Professionals

Cat

Robbins

Mrs. Cat Robbins

Consultant (Level 4)

Job

Teacher and Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People

Areas of application

Attention, Learning, Speech and language, Emotion regulation, Motor skills and coordination, Autism spectrum disorders, Academic skills

Client's profile

Children, Teenagers, Adults, Seniors

Spoken languages

English

Experience

Cat Robbins, BA (Hons), PGCE (QTS), PGDip (QToD), Tomatis® Consultant

Cat graduated from the University of Kent with a BA (Hons) in Social Policy, and subsequently the University of Surrey Roehampton with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PCGE Primary - ICT specialism). She worked as a class teacher for the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Croydon from 2001.

Cat completed a Postgraduate Degree in Education Studies - Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People (2014-2016) and does freelance work with the London Borough of Bromley as a QToD for their primary and secondary school Deaf bases.

Cat is a Level 4 Tomatis® Consultant and combines up-to-date knowledge of the Tomatis® Method of sound and listening therapy with meaningful 1:1 learning and teaching interventions. Cat supports the development of the brain in children, adolescents and adults to refine their learning efficiency and help them express their skills and talents.

Cat is passionate about the impact of hearing and listening on learning and life.

Those who are struggling with school and/or life and not getting the help they want elsewhere are invited to get in touch!

The Sound Teacher is a member of:

British Society of Audiology (BSA) https://www.thebsa.org.uk/

British Association of Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (BATOD) https://www.batod.org.uk/

National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) ‘Professionals’ member https://www.ndcs.org.uk/

The Sound Teacher has undertaken the following Covid-19-specific training:

Registered Place2Be ‘Mental Health Champion’ (2021) – https://www.place2be.org.uk

Psychological First Aid (PFA) trained (2021) - https://www.futurelearn.com/partners/public-health-england

The Sound Teacher subscribes to:

Deafness and Education International https://www.tandfonline.com/ydei

The Sound Teacher has:

Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance with https://www.hiscox.co.uk

Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check ‘for individuals involved in caring for, training, supervising or sole charge of children or vulnerable adults’ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service