UNIT 75 HSC3029 Support individuals with specific communication needs Learning Outcomes for 1.1/1.2/1.5 will be cross referenced into Unit HSC21 and LD201 1.3 In the table below list features in the environment that may help or hinder communication. Then describe in detail how these features may help or hinder communication. Features in the environment How may this help or hinder communication? Lighting People with a hearing or sight impairment need good lighting as they may need
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Marlee continued on her acting as her successful career and played in various movies and not wanted to hide her difficult of hearing issue. Rather than hiding herself‚ she exposed her hearing difficulty to the world and used this as her character in all the shows. One of the memorable scenes from “Seinfeld” is that a guy asks Matlin if she is a deaf and she responds without any hesitant‚ “bingo.” Furthermore‚ Marlee was one of the characters from the television series called “Switched at Birth
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"Through Deaf Eyes‚" a two-hour HDTV documentary for PBS‚ explores nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America. The film presents the shared experiences of American history - family life‚ education‚ work‚ and community connections - from the perspective of deaf citizens. Narrated by actor Stockard Channing‚ the film includes interviews with former Gallaudet University president‚ Dr. I. King Jordan‚ and actors Marlee Matlin and Bernard Bragg‚ as well as historians and deaf Americans with diverse views
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On April 15th‚ I simulated a bilateral hearing loss for an entire day. Throughout the day‚ my awareness of the daily struggles of an individual with a hearing loss increased. I had various feelings towards this experience. There were many moments when communication was an issue. I was obligated to use different strategies to cope with the communication issues that I encountered during this experience. To put myself in the shoes of a person with a hearing loss allowed for an eye-opening experience
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The treatment of disabled Americans has greatly improved following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 and the Individuals with Disabilities Act in 2004. However‚ discrimination against these individuals such as the deaf and hard of hearing still exist. From the non-accommodating school settings to the denial of a translator‚ the deaf and hard of hearing face discrimination that negates the basic rights of humans. Despite the enactment of these laws‚ the deaf and hard of
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In some cases‚ children are affected by deafness or blindness‚ which can affect their cognitive development due to the lack of a sense. When children develop their cognition‚ an important part of this development is communication and listening to the family to eventually understand all of the names given to objects and people. Blindness can affect a child’s cognitive development as well‚ due to the child not being able to they see the objects and people they learn to speak about. However‚ even though
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Through Deaf Eyes It was interesting to hear‚ and see‚ what kind of challenges that deaf people faced. One of the people I found interesting was. A hearing French professor had brought the language from France and that was how it signing had started. I thought that was interesting‚ because not only was it a long time to create a form of communication for the deaf community; they were also mistreated for their inability to communicate with the rest of the world. Another person that I found interesting
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Deaf Children’s Language and Barriers To Overcome In this paper I am researching the obstacles and barriers deaf children must overcome. Two to three of 1‚000 children in the United States are born with detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears. Every year 10‚000 infants are born in the United States with sensorineural deafness. Many become deaf before the age two. Experts agree that a child must be exposed to an accessible language on a regular and frequent basis before becoming
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Educational systems rarely stress the importance of training the ability of enlightening individual complications like nutrition‚ though less has been done to challenge the minorities and the disabled. Thanks to the works of Humphries and Padden‚ they stressed out to emphasize the cultural uniqueness of the deaf subculture in the American system. Humphries and Padden drew on their individual experiences as being deaf to illuminate the culture and life of deaf Americans‚ myths‚ and their everyday
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Historically‚ members of the Deaf community have been incarcerated for as long as prisons have existed. Deaf people serving prison terms are frequently denied basic due process rights and access to rehabilitation programs and prison services because prison administrators fail to understand their communication needs. However‚ deaf and hard of hearing inmates have constitutional and statutory rights of access in correctional facilities. For example‚ if a hearing individual is able to make
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