The Pros And Cons Of Deaf Teachers

This means that the Deaf student most likely knows English and can speak. This can occur in Deaf children who are born into Hearing families, because the hearing parents want their child to experience what it’s like to hear. Again, this conflicting view mostly revolves around the half-full and

Introduction A fundamental aspect of acquiring skills in a new language is the ability to communicate messages in writing. For a teacher of English as a second language, nurturing students to develop sound writing skills is crucial to the success of the student both as a learner of the language, and their skills communication skills in reading, speaking and even listening in English. The natural ability of native speakers to communicate in a given language does not automatically indicate proficiency in their writing skills, which must be acquired. The psycholinguist Eric Lenneberg noted that writing is a culturally specific and learned behaviour (Brown, H.D, p334). Consequently, writing skills are important to developing a student’s appreciation of Western culture and a student who does not acquire sound writing skills is deprived of many benefits of reading and communicating with the Western world.

For most bilingual speakers, the English language is hard to navigate. Like an unknown street, not natural to them, they stumble to find the words to say what they want to say; they trip over cracks of pronunciation, taking wrong turns over careless misuse, out of context phrasing, as they attempt to follow the rules of ambiguous signage established by others. “Uh, um, hmmm, how do you say…?” A long pause follows. The image that comes to mind is of a student scratching at their head, hesitating before finally delivering the “right” word. It’s a matter of translating it to convey the correct meaning.

According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the official definition of deafness is “a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification” (“Hearing Loss and Deafness,” 2012). The terminology “with or without amplification” is important to remember when defining deafness, because it specifies that “a hearing aid will not provide sufficient accommodation so that the student can succeed in the classroom” (“Hearing Loss and Deafness,” 2012). Students who are deaf face a myriad of difficulties, which can make the following responsibilities challenging: learning through lectures, presenting verbally, note taking, viewing educational

When a young child looks at these words, the student cannot use logic to spell certain words. Learning Disabled children have a hard time conquering spelling and it may be the hardest task for elementary school children with learning disabilities to conquer. The question has been proposed of whether or not children with learning disabilities need to be taught spelling differently in comparison to children without learning disabilities. Children with learning disabilities learn at a slower pace and do need to be taught spelling differently than students without learning disabilities. According to the learning disability information web site," A learning disability is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding and using language spoken or written which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, spell, or do mathematical calculations."

Deaf and hard of hearing children who lack phonological awareness struggle reading because reading requires children to be able to map sound to the letters that they read (Nielsen and Stahlman, 2002). Even though some deaf children can use their visual memory of words to read, they still need to improve their phonological awareness to develop their reading proficiency (Miller and Clark, 2011). In general, phonological awareness skills are important, but it cannot... ... middle of paper ... ...m Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Paul, P. & Whitelaw, G. (2011). Hearing and deafness: An introduction for health and educational professionals.

This is why, as teachers, we must show that we care by sharing our knowledge and promoting these skills, so that these students know what the future has to offer. Most people are born into a family and culture that they just automatically become a part of. They learn the language, the customs, what is acceptable, what is not and can relate to one another. Man... ... middle of paper ... ...journals/american_annals_of_the_deaf/v149/149.2johnson.html Knoors, H., Meuleman, J., & Folmer, J. K. (2003). Parents' and Teachers' Evaluations of the Communicative Abilities of Deaf Children.

The Redeafined magazine has an information about which is best in between with the institute for the Deaf or mainstream in a hearing school. The mainstream have “curriculum and teaching styles standardized across classrooms” and “signing students communicate through interpreters”. This can be for only few deaf and not many. “May have individual speed therapy”, and this school “will have more practice listening and speaking to communicate during the school day”. “Deafness likely viewed as a disability or medical problem”.

The Benefits of Incorporating Sign Language in Primary Classrooms of Hearing Learners As a teacher, do you wish to improve your students’ vocabulary, spelling proficiency, and reading ability? If so, incorporating sign language in your primary classroom may foster this improvement in language learning. Sign language enhances language development and improves students’ sight word recognition and understanding of the alphabet/phonics. Applying hands-on learning to language has multiple benefits, so why not “Let your fingers do the talking” (Goode et al, 1993/94). Why Sign Language Helps Language Development A primary concern in education today is improving children’s language development (Daniels, 1994).

Not all words in English follow the phonics rules? This is one reason why English is considered to be a difficult language to learn. If it was a phonetic language it would be much easier to learn. For this reason, while learning phonics is important, children also need to learn the common words that do not fit the phonics rules, such words are called Dolch sight words for example: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it and many others. To learn Dolch sight words students are taught to memorize the letters of the word, without sounding them out.