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 * __Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments__**

Websites: “Teaching Hearing-Impaired Children” [] Hear-it.org has posted several helpful articles, not only on teaching hearing-impaired children, but how hearing loss affects socialization, hinders recognizing emotions of others, and how its combination with other disabilities affects children and teenagers.

“Strategies for Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments” [|http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/hearing.html] This website – from Eberly College of Arts & Sciences at West Virginia University – offers helpful strategies for teaching the hearing impaired such as always facing the student with the hearing impairment, speaking from a well-lit area of the room, incorporating body language and gestures as much as possible, using visual aids, captioning any video or auditory material, writing all classroom instructions and procedures on the blackboard, and avoiding certain language forms such as idiomatic expressions. It also offers advice specific to other environments such as laboratories, field experiences, and group discussions.

“Deaf Education Virtual Library” [] The Council on the Education of the Deaf has an extensive virtual library on topics including: Assessment, Curriculum & Instruction, Technology, and Recommended Practices. Dr. Brenda Stephenson, from The University of Tennessee, has posted Powerpoint presentations for developing lesson plans, unit planning, and differentiated instruction.

“Working With Hearing Impaired Students” [] This website – by E-Ready: TeachersFirst’s Resources for Gifted and Special Education – offers a simple list of modes of communication & strategies for teaching hearing impaired students.

“Teaching Strategies and Content Modifications for the Child with Deaf-Blindness” [] This article explores differences faced by children with hearing impairments, students with visual impairments, and students with deaf-blindness.

Print Articles: = Luckner, J.L. “Skills needed for teaching hearing-impaired adolescents. The perceptions of teachers.” //American Annals of the Deaf// 136.5 (December 1991):422-7. = = This article, albeit dated, discusses their survey of over 400 secondary level teachers to determine what they saw as essential to working with hearing-impaired adolescents, the 18 types of competencies identified as essential, and their implications for teacher preparation. =


 * __Mini Lesson__**

The mini-lesson includes modifications for the Hearing-Impaired students marked in red. Since all of the literature on Hearing-Impaired students emphasizes the importance of using visual aids and writing as much information as possible up on the board, the lesson includes mostly images, documentary footage and Powerpoint slides.

