Title: Teaching students with hearing loss | Hearing Like Me
Headings: Teaching students with hearing loss
Teaching students with hearing loss
Understanding what “Hearing Loss” means
“A little research into the fundamentals of hearing loss can make it much easier for a teacher to understand the challenges students with hearing loss face in the classroom.”
“She developed a set of hand-signal codes to determine whether his assistive devices were working. She downplayed it so other students didn’t think it was a big deal.”
Hearing loss in the classroom
Communicating effectively
1) Face the student when speaking
2) Use the buddy system
3) Repeat yourself
Editorial Staff

Content: It’s also important that the speaker, whether that’s the teacher, a guest speaker, or other students, wears the microphone. If the situation is not conducive to passing the microphone around the classroom, the teacher can get the same net result by repeating back what others are saying. “Tommy says the answer is four,” a teacher could repeat. Teachers can maximize the potential of assistive technologies by communicating its importance to other students, parents, and faculty, including substitute teachers and the administrative staff. Finally, encouraging children to advocate for themselves is perhaps the single most important thing a teacher can do to help a student. If you create an environment in which a child with hearing loss is comfortable raising his or her hand to say, “Excuse me, teacher; I can’t hear you,” you will undoubtedly continue to change the lives of the students you teach. Read more: 4 Tips for Teachers on Helping Deaf Students Succeed
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Editorial Staff
The HearingLikeMe editorial team includes Jill Blocker von Bueren and Lisa Goldstein. https://www.hearinglikeme.com/about-hearing-like-me-com/
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Editorial Staff
The HearingLikeMe editorial team includes Jill Blocker von Bueren and Lisa Goldstein.