Easing the Frustration of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
I need earplugs to create a simulation for my teachers on the importance of closed captioning for videos. I would like to show instead of tell teachers how much it helps my students.
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I am a Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher trying to make a difference in the lives of my students. I work with students of all ages on all different types of things from self-advocacy and compensatory skills to academics. My students all have one thing in common, however, they all have a hearing loss. My students range from mild hearing loss to being completely deaf. There are many accommodations my students need in the classroom to help them be successful. I work every day to try to help my students have equal access to information and learning in the classroom as a student without hearing loss would have. Aside from working with my students, I also work with the staff that works with my students on a daily basis to help them best accommodate my students. I am a teacher with a goal to try to make school easier and less frustrating for my students.
My Project
Help give my students with hearing loss more access to information in the classroom. I will be preparing a PowerPoint presentation to present to all the schools I work at on the importance of closed captioning for my students. I decided it would be more effective and helpful for me to work with teachers in making closed captioning more accessible and utilized in the classroom. Through a simulation, I want to show instead of tell teachers how much my students benefit from closed captioning. I will be playing a movie without captioning and they will be asked to wear the earplugs. This will help show the teachers how challenging it is to get all the information through a video when you cannot hear it all clearly and captioning is not used.
My students will benefit from their teachers having the resources and support to use closed captioning with their videos.
They will also have some of the ability to "walk in my students' shoes" and see how hard it is to understand a video with hearing loss. Showing teachers instead of just telling them I believe will have a larger benefit on how hard teachers try to make the use of captioning on their videos. When teachers close caption their videos, it allows my students with hearing loss equal access to the information presented in the videos as all the other students have.
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