1 / 27

Understanding Deafness: Causes, Treatments, and Support

Dive into the world of hearing impairments, exploring why people are deaf and how to help those affected. Learn about types of hearing loss, audiograms, treatment options like hearing aids and cochlear implants, and effective communication strategies. Discover teaching methods and curriculum planning for deaf students, and find support through our East Lothian Hearing Impairment Service. Contact us at the John Muir House for assistance and resources tailored to support those with hearing impairments.

rrennick
Download Presentation

Understanding Deafness: Causes, Treatments, and Support

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. East Lothian Hearing Impairment Service Deaf Awareness training

  2. Why are people deaf? • Born deaf. • Illness. • Accident. • Syndrome. • Don’t know.

  3. The Ear.

  4. Conductive Hearing Loss. • Permanent or Temporary: • Glue Ear. • Syndromes. • Illness/accident. • Sound Pathway Interruption.

  5. Sensori-neural Loss. • Permanent. • Cochlear damage. • Auditory Nerve damage.

  6. Audiogram.

  7. Sound Levels.

  8. Can It Be Cured? • Glue ear. • Sensori-neural deafness. • Use hearing aids. • Cochlear Implants. • Hearing Dogs. • Sign Language.

  9. How hearing aids work? • Microphone. • Sound goes into hearing aid. • Makes the sound louder. • Sends it to the ear. • Need batteries. Microphone

  10. How a hearing aid works.

  11. Cochlear Implant.

  12. Speech Processor for Cochlear Implant. Microphone Receiver

  13. How to help? • Hearing aids. • Lip-reading: • Quiet class. • Repeat answers from the class. • One person talking at a time.

  14. How to help? Written material. • Scribe notes. • Printed summary. • Bullet points. • Written instructions.

  15. More…. • Use radio aid –microphone. • Don’t talk to the board. • Check understanding. • Repeat or summarise answers.

  16. How can we help? • Advisory. • Practical. • Teaching styles. • Regular visits. • Pupil workshops.

  17. Teaching Strategies. • Child’s level. • Cluing in. • Visual. • Quiet times. • Pre-teaching/reinforcement.

  18. Communication. • Get child’s attention. • Clear speech. • One to two step instructions. • Write instructions.

  19. More…. • Limit amount of information. • Monitor delivery. • Here and now. • Near front of class.

  20. Curriculum Planning. • Team approach. • Delegate. • Prioritise. • Differentiation. • Auditory.

  21. Child’s interests. • Build on the known. • Repetition & familiarity. • Involve in class activities. • Responsibilities. • Peer group role model.

  22. Pre-teaching. • Introduce new topics. • Involvement of/with parents. • Visual information. • Vocabulary. • Concepts.

  23. Role of Teacher of the deaf. • Support school, staff and child. • Help with curriculum planning. • Team teaching. • Advisory/monitor.

  24. More… • Pre-teach and reinforce. • Support language. • Monitor hearing aids. • Listening skills. • Monitor speech.

  25. Our Service Your resource

  26. Thank You You can find us in John Muir House 01620 827 827 ecarnell@elcschool.org.uk kturner@elcschool.org.uk ltelford@elcschool.org.uk cbrookes@elcschool.org.uk byoung@elcschool.org.uk

More Related