1 / 17

“I am not an expert on hearing loss and I do not represent the Deaf community.”

Etiquette, Humor and Consumer Interaction: Strategies of Working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People. “I am not an expert on hearing loss and I do not represent the Deaf community.”. 1. Alternatively Hearing 12. Hearing Disabled

aleda
Download Presentation

“I am not an expert on hearing loss and I do not represent the Deaf community.”

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Etiquette, Humor and Consumer Interaction: Strategies of Working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

  2. “I am not an expert on hearing loss and I do not represent the Deaf community.”

  3. 1. Alternatively Hearing 12. Hearing Disabled 2. Auditorially Inconvenienced 13. Hearing Handicapped 3. Communicatively Challenged 14. Hearing Impaired 4. Deaf-and-Dumb 15. Just Different 5. Deaf as a Post 16. Partially Deaf 6. Deaf-Mute 17. Sensorially Ungifted 7. Deaf 18. Thick O’ Hearing 8. deaf 19. Tin Ear 9. Deef 20. Tone Deaf 10. Differently Abled 21. Totally Deaf 11. Hard of Hearing 22. “deaf as a door nail”

  4. “Deaf People can do anything…except hear.” Frederick C. Schreiber, the late Executive Director of the National Association of the Deaf"

  5. “Can you read lips?”

  6. Don’t Shout!

  7. Ingredients for Successes: • Resourcefulness • Enable Self-Advocacy • Don’t Assume

  8. Preventing spontaneous reactions!

  9. Visual Telecommunications

  10. Working with Interpreters

  11. Working with D/HOH People Be Yourself. Ask questions. There’s no such a thing as a “stupid”question. Take ASL class …it’s fun!

  12. “Good communication does not always guarantee success, but poor communication almost always guarantee failure” Bob Rich, Jr.

  13. “Hearing students of ASL will come to appreciate that the world of silence is not silent at all; rather, it is a world where they can see sounds through their eyes.” Matt 

More Related