Higher Colleges of Technology

RAK women college

Hearing Impaired
Name : Maryam Faisal Alqassimi
ID:H00202474
Course Name: Teaching learners with special needs
Course Code: EDU2802

Outline:
Definition

for hearing impaired/ outline of

characteristics.
History and terminology
Policy of integration and inclusion. how is
work
Who is involved.
Examples in the UAE.

What is a hearing impairment?

A hearing impairment is a permanent hearing loss or a decrease in
hearing that is so significant it negatively affects a child's
performance in school or ability to learn. Deafness is not included
under the hearing impairment category under the IDEA.
The ears are made up in three parts, the outside part catches sound, the
middle part makes sound louder, and inside part get the messages to the
brain.

( The brain make sense of the sound).

Caused by noise, aging, disease, and heredity.

Parker, V. (2011). I know someone with a hearing
impairment. Chicago, Ill.: Heinemann Library.

Causes:
Liquid

in the middle ear from colds

Ear infection
Allergies
Infection in the ear canal
Foreign body in the ear
Impacted earwax

History:
The history of hearing impairments can be
outlined back to centuries before Christ. For
instance, around 1000 BC a Hebrew law
provided those with deafness and hearing
impairments.
Growing generation they made signs
language for hearing loss to understand
what the people speak.

Several signing systems are in use today,

including the American Sign Language (ASL),
Fingerspelling, and Signing Exact English. All
systems use manual signs made with the
hands and fingers to represent words,
concepts, and ideas.
In the past the people who cant hear they
called deaf and now they call it hearing
impaired.

Terminology
They allowed them to option of choosing the
terminology to describe themselves based on
their hearing status, communication
preferences, cultural orientation, and use of
technology. Also, Hard of hearing usually refers
to people who have enough hearing to
communicate and feel comfortable
communicating through spoken language

Policy of integration and

inclusion. how its work
Inclusion has academic and social benefits for all
students whether with or without disabilities.
Its work to increased communication with each
other and social interaction. Also, more active
participation in the school community.
The inclusion of students with hearing impairment is
even more challenging because of the
communication barrier between them and their nonimpaired peers and teachers.

How gets the hearing impaired for people:

Some people born with hearing impaired,

others lose later in life and other people
loss hearing in anytime for anyone slowly.

Policy for integration:

It is believed that integration into the
mainstream enables students with disabilities
to benefit from the stimulation of mixing with
relatively more able students and to have the
opportunity to observe higher models of social
and academic behavior.

Who is involved:
Doctors.
Parents and other family members of children with
hearing loss.
Teachers. Put display for signs symbols and she use
fingerspelling while speaking to students with
hearing impairments.
that make a great relationship with each others and
cooperate

Examples:
Give deaf people a voice, Dubai campaign
seeks to integrate those with hearing
disabilities. This event is our first campaign,
which is simply about raising awareness
about deaf people, about sign language and
about awareness in society.

Videos:
http://www.np.edu.sg/sdar/cca/commsvc/

Pages/hi.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLFUF

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References:

Parker, V. (2011). I know someone with a hearing impairment.

Chicago, Ill.: Heinemann Library.

Spencer, P. E., & Marschark, M. (2010). Evidence-based practice in

educating deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Oxford ; New York:
Oxford University Press.

Citation:C. Jonah Eleweke (2011), Chapter 8 History of deafness and

hearing impairments, in Anthony F. Rotatori, Festus E. Obiakor, Jeffrey
P. Bakken (ed.) History of Special Education (Advances in Special
Education, Volume 21), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.181212

Parker,

S. (1995). The ear and hearing. London ; New York, N.Y.:

Watts Books.