St Mary's College for Hearing Impaired Students is a registered special school. We are a Catholic educational community for students in Prep to Year 12 who have a significant hearing loss. We follow the charism of the Dominican tradition and we welcome students from all faith traditions. At St Mary's we focus on student wellbeing, learning, language, and skills to interact with others to develop confidence. St Mary's operates four campuses within and alongside four partner schools: Holy Trinity Primary School, Wantirna South; St John's Regional College, Dandenong; Aquinas College, Ringwood and Marymede Catholic College, South Morang. Our students have the best of both worlds with the opportunity to learn alongside their hearing peers while being supported by specialist Teachers of the Deaf. Inclusion of students is monitored and programs are determined by the needs of individual students. St Mary's staff advocate for students and work closely with staff in our partner schools to meet our students' specific needs. Individual Learning Plans contain goals relating to language, listening and speech production as well as curriculum and personal and interpersonal goals as required. We work closely with parents. Our aim, consistent with gospel teachings, is to develop in students the values, attitudes and skills required to participate independently as confident responsible members of society