controversial? The deaf community believes a deaf person’s ability to live a full and meaningful life is not compromised by his or her deafness‚ so the suggestion that cochlear implants provide advantages over a deaf lifestyle is shortsighted and insensitive. Many deaf people deal very well with their deafness‚ learning sign language and lip reading and adapting their work and home environments to accommodate their loss of hearing. Another controversy surrounding cochlear implants and the deaf community is
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effective communication and interpersonal interactions. There are a lot of useful strategies within a health and social care environment for example a hearing aid would be very useful as a deaf person would be able to hear people talking to them as it picks up and increases the volume of an individual’s voice so the deaf person would hear them clearly but also it has disadvantages as if the hearing aid battery was not working it would be no use to them as they would not hear anything or only hear tiny
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contrast. This will show how Deaf and hard of hearing people use each form and what the advantages and preferences are. American Sign Language (ASL) is predominantly used by the Deaf and hard of hearing for communication purposes. The language of ASL incorporates facial expressions‚ body language‚ and gestures. Another feature is fingerspelling which uses the hands to form letters. Some people who use ASL can hear and speak while others cannot. ASL can connect Deaf and hard of hearing people to
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Another is eyesight or vision‚ the person who suffers from this disability have a very hard time communicating or even to express themselves to what they want to do and wishes without the help of other person. This case is the same with a person who is deaf or can not hear anything. And sometimes when you suffer from this disabilities‚ people are easily judge you in a way that they try to seclude you or belong you to have a below average intelligence and assume that you can not do or think the same as
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used to describe discrimination against deaf or hard of hearing people” I liked this definition because it is simple and to easy to understand. Audism is a word most people don’t recognize‚ and because of this fact most don’t realize when they are discriminating to the deaf or hard of hearing. When someone meets a deaf person for the first time they are usually awkward or even un-intentionally rude. I understand this because I did the same when I meet a deaf person for the first time. It wasn’t that
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Unit 1: 1:1. people communicate at work for many different reasons‚ so that work can be done properly without problems‚ interchanging information between management‚ employees‚ client and other organisation that might be involved. People also communicate to socialise and share life stories. 1:2. Communication if not done properly can affect people working in the same place. If it’s done properly it can make work flow easy. It is important that workers understand the language used when communicating
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severe that he is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing‚ with or without amplification‚ which causes an effect on educational performance. Most special educators distinguish between children who are deaf and those who are hard of hearing. Michael is deaf and cannot use hearing to understand speech. If Michael was able to hear‚ he would be able to understanding and interpret speech without using any special device or techniques. Due to Michael’s deafness‚ a hearing aid
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have recently been incidents of self harming. The student has seen the Educational Psychologist following a parental request for statutory assessment which school will fully support. How I can support this student Solutions - • Ask the deaf student to choose the best seating for communication. This means a seat near the teacher so that the student can see the teacher’s lips and hear the teacher a lot clearer. Sometimes it is effective‚ especially in small groups‚ to use a round table
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daughter of Martin and Kai‚ a couple whom are both deaf and rely heavily on their hearing daughter to navigate through their daily lives. She translates television for her mother and even translates at her own parent- teacher conference (quite favorably to herself). When her little sister Marie is born‚ the responsibility of communicating spoken word falls into Lara’s lap as well. With her constant efforts to link the worlds of the hearing and the deaf‚ she falls behind classmates in her reading skills
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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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