Hearing
According to Dell, Newton, and Petroff (2012), there are two definitions of hearing impairment:
(1) Deaf: students who are deaf have very little or no practical hearing. Because they cannot hear it often times makes it difficult to speak, so they often use sign language.
(2) Hard of Hearing: Students can usually understand people speaking to them with hearing aids, and lip reading. Students who are hard of hearing can speak.
(1) Deaf: students who are deaf have very little or no practical hearing. Because they cannot hear it often times makes it difficult to speak, so they often use sign language.
(2) Hard of Hearing: Students can usually understand people speaking to them with hearing aids, and lip reading. Students who are hard of hearing can speak.
Low-Tech Tools:
- Paper and pencil: This is as low tech as it gets. Students who can read and write can use paper and pencil to help them communicate what their needs/wants are.
Vendor: Staples
- Instant Message (IM): is on a computer, the students design a name the suits them and they can chat by typing into the box that comes up; when they select enter it transfer to the other person who is also using IM.
Vendor: Any kind of computer that can install Instant Message
- White boards: are also a way in which students who are impaired who can read and write can communicate with each other.
Vendor: Staples, BJ's, Costco, Target
Mid-Tech Tools:
- Phone Flasher: this product is connected to the phone and will flash when their is an incoming call in order to make the individual who is hearing impaired aware that the phone would be ringing.
Vendor: Harris Communication
- Alarm Clock w/ Flash and Vibrator: this product is for the hearing impaired, it will flash and vibrate in order to wake them up; they come in a variety of different kinds such as, some can shake the entire bed.
Vendor: ILTsource
- Door Beacon: whenever someone knocks on the door it flashes that way the individual who is hard of hearing or is deaf knows that someone is at the door
Vendor: Product for the deaf
- TTY's: are devices that can help people who are hard of hearing communicate over the telephone
Vendor: Maryland Relay
High-Tech Tools:
- Sound field amplification: This is a program where the teacher can wear a device around her neck and it will amplify her voice throughout the classroom. Also, students when answering can speak into a microphone so that it will amplify their voices as well, so that it will help the individual who is hard of hearing hear better.
- TTY Software: Instead of purchasing a TTY this software allows you to download it on to your computer using the same code as a TTY. It functions under Microsoft Word and allows your computer to communicate over the telephone just like a TTY. It is available for Mac computers as well.
Vendor: United TTY
- Computer-assisted Real Time (CART): What this does is it will caption everything that is being said at church, meetings, classrooms, conferences etc. The captioning may be on a small screen or on an overhead screen (for a larger group)
Vendor: http://providingcart.com/Services.html