Get Your School Involved
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) is the national charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people. The NDCS have put together a number of Deaf Friendly Activity Packs designed to help your pupils understand how deafness affects other deaf children.
Every deaf child is different. It is important that children understand deaf children may experience different levels of hearing loss and may use different kinds of hearing aids to help them listen. In this activity children will learn about:
- different levels of hearing loss
- different kinds of hearing aids
- how to reduce classroom noise.
Deafness is not a disability but not being able to communicate effectively is.
In this activity, children will learn about what good communication is and how we listen. They will also find out how we can communicate without speaking, and try out fingerspelling and lip-reading
Finally, children will learn how the inside of their ear works, the use of hearing aids, as well as how to make their classroom more listener friendly.
2009-May-04 | Author
