Original article can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com Copyright Whurr Publishers Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DOI: 10.1002/dei.139 Full text of this article is not available in the UHRAThe Royal National Institute for Deaf People recently published a series of 'Guidelines' on working with deaf children. This article looks at these publications within the context of change in deaf education and in the role of teachers of the deaf, with specific reference to the situation in the United Kingdom