I am working with preservice teachers on ways to integrate technology into teaching methods for special ed students. My licensure areas are LD and EBD, and I am having difficulties coming up with valid teaching techniques that work with D/HH students in the areas of acquiring language. Any suggestions? Thanks
Kathy,
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“I am working with preservice teachers on ways to integrate technology into teaching methods for special ed students. My licensure areas are LD and EBD, and I am having difficulties coming up with valid teaching techniques that work with D/HH students in the areas of acquiring language. Any suggestions? Thanks”
It is a little different working with deaf vs. hard of hearing (HOH) children. With my HOH children, my approach is the same as with dyslexic children. We need to start with the basics…phonemic awareness and phonics. Fortunately, with the amplification today, we can bring most speech sounds to HOH children. I have been very tired of ineffective techniques and am planning on incorporating Reading Reflex (Phono-Graphix) and possibly some Lindamood-Bell into my teaching. I am also going to use Earobics (cd-rom)with a couple of them.
Deaf children without cochlear implants have a very poor prognosis for reading. A deaf child with a cochlear implant and excellent, early auditory-verbal training can later be taught reading somewhat like the HOH children. Thus far, I have not had the opportunity to teach reading to an early implanted deaf child, so I can’t speak from experience there. The two deaf preschoolers I work with are also receiving auditory verbal therapy, and other than listening to some nursery rhyme and song tapes, I can’t think of any technology used with them. Really, it takes a lot of human contact to teach a deaf child language. The essential technology is in the hearing equipment, not in the instruction.
If you have other questions, I’ll be glad to try to help!
Janis