Hearing Impairment

Foreword

Having asked all the questions to professionals of the mind in numerous Emotional Literacy training courses, as an ESL teacher in Adult Education I would now like to share with my colleagues this very wise statement that was made at one point:

 

Teachers can be great «mediators» when it comes to students with special educational needs

As it happens, we were not taught how to deal with diversity and inclusion when we were first getting trained at college. We learnt about functional language, phonetics, poetry and literature, history and culture, and so on and so forth. However, once we are actually in the classroom we teachers can find ourselves rather lost when other than «the subject» itself needs dealing with. What is interesting is that although we are not specialists in neurodiversity we can certainly be mediators. So in this SEND field that is new to us the best thing we can do may be to show an open and respectful attitude to the person we have in front of us and do some basic research to find out how to help these students in their learning processes.

TLC welcome

 

 

HEARING IMPAIRMENT

I am sharing today   this link to Cambridge Assessment Special requirements which I found extremely useful when I was searching for some guidance for English language teachers on how to address my students with hearing difficulties. We can help people who need special arrangements due to SpLD.

 

 

 

 

Here is an activity for B1 students with accommodations for hearing impairment students. The activity was created by Ms Irene Acosta as part of research group INCLUSIVE PRACTICES (know more).