Workshop aims This workshop will provide the opportunity to explore deaf awareness

2. Workshop aims • This workshop will provide the opportunity to • explore deaf awareness • the implications of hearing impairment for the classroom • strategies to address the educational implications of hearing impairment.

3. The definition of a hearing impairment is “an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but is not included under the definition of deafness.”  http://www.specialeducationguide.com/disability-profiles/hearing-impairments/

4. Deaf awareness

5. Do not • Cover your mouth when talking • Move around when you are talking • Stand with your back to the windows • Stand with your back to the deaf person • Talk too fast or too slow • Shout

6. Do • Make eye contact • Talk normally • Give deaf person time to respond • Get deaf person’s attention before talking • Have an expressive face

7. Implications of Hearing Impairment

8. Miss out on incidental learning • Sentence structure • Use of joining words • Misunderstanding of social cues • Miss parts of conversations • Need to maintain eye contact

9. Lip reading challenge!

10. Strategies to address educational implications

11. Visual resources (Bitsboard) • Reduce information on page • Use short sentences • Consider words whose meaning changes depending on context • Teach idioms • Mind mapping (Simple Mind)

12. Maintenance of hearing aids and implants • Closed gap activities • Word wise whizz • Dramatic facial expressions