A new week!

Even though this post is a little late I learned a lot this week as we reviewed the law of education and learned about Hard of Hearing.

First we put cases and laws in order by years. Then we attached each of them to one of the six principles of IDEA (LRE, FAPE, Due process, IEP, Non-discriminatory evaluation, zero reject/child find). This was a great review for our test.

The group that presented this week did very well! We learned about people who are hard of hearing. We talked about mouth reading and it was very difficult. The three words we tried to mouth were baby, maybe, and pay me. Nobody could get them right. It was so crazy!

There are four types of hearing loss; conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, and central hearing loss. I didn't realize how many different ways people could loose their hearing. These things can happen before or after birth. It effects vocabulary, speech, sentence structure, and social functions.

I learned about the two different cultures which are the deaf culture and oral culture. In deaf culture the hearing impaired use sign language mostly. They usually have deaf parents and go to deaf schools. When a person hearing impaired person lives in oral culture they usually lip read and learn to cope in the normal classroom and home.

There are specific things the school district must provide for those who are hard of hearing. They are obligated to provide an aide to translate or different things depending on the needs of the specific student.

Overall this was  a good week and I learned a lot mostly about those who are hard of hearing. It is very interesting what they go through and how they get things to work better!