Title: 7 Teaching Strategies to Empower Deaf Students | Deaf Unity
Headings: 7 Teaching Strategies to Empower Deaf Students
7 Teaching Strategies to Empower Deaf Students
1) Ensure there is a clear line of sight
2) Provide written handouts & visual aids
3) Show captioned or interpreted video
4) Reduce background noise
5) Use available resources
6) Check-in with your deaf students
7) Adapt your teaching for distance-learning strategies
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Content: Easier said than done in some noisy classrooms! Besides managing student behaviour, however, think of other ways you can limit background noise in the room. Can you close the windows and doors, for example? Clearly repeating questions or responses from other students in the class will help your deaf learners understand what their classmates are saying. You want your deaf and hard-of-hearing students to feel included in your class conversations. Ask them how they will feel most comfortable participating in class discussions. 5) Use available resources
You could consider learning sign language and encourage other class members to learn sign language too. Additionally, you can use the technology available to assist deaf learners. For example, if possible, allow deaf students to record the lesson with live remote captioning, or provide a recording of the lesson yourself so that a transcript can be made available later. Some hearing aids have a transmitter and receiver system with a clip-on microphone for the speaker so find out if this equipment might be useful to your deaf student.