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Awareness of educational needs for deaf and hard of hearing students

Awareness of educational needs for deaf and hard of hearing students What does this mean for teaching, learning and living at university?. Disability Awareness – A New Challenge for Education Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland October 23, 2009 Manfred Hintermair

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Awareness of educational needs for deaf and hard of hearing students

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  1. Awareness of educational needs for deaf and hard of hearing students What does this mean for teaching, learning and living at university? Disability Awareness – A New Challenge for Education Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland October 23, 2009 Manfred Hintermair www.ph-heidelberg.de/wp/hinterma

  2. Who may talk about deaf affairs? Hearing person? Deaf person?

  3. 1. Conceptual orientations Empowerment orientation Resource orientation Well-Being Participation orientation

  4. 1a. Empowerment orientation Encouraging people .... To take their own affairs in hand ... To discover their own powers ... To take their own capabilities seriously ... To appreciate the value of their own solutions Empowerment processes have to start very early on in life! http://www.empowerment.state.ia.us/common/images/bike.gif

  5. 1b. Resource orientation This means .... Having confidence in an individual’s potential … Devising constructive conditions for such development ... Having a good look for the capabilities of the students ... Quality of life is the ultimate goal! http://storage9.myopera.com/lokutus_prime/blog/I%20Can%20Do%20Anything.jpeg

  6. 1c. Participation orientation This means .... Involving people in all projects regarding their lives from the start … Following bottom-up-strategies ... Providing better decisions and outcomes ... Promoting well-being … Strengthening the comittment to and the understanding of human rights and democracy. Inclusion to be realized at all levels! http://www.thecolor.com/images/Class-Participation.gif

  7. CONVENTION on the RIGHTS of PERSONS with DISABILITIES Article 12 - Equal recognition before the law 1. States Parties reaffirm that persons with disabilities have the right to recognition everywhere as persons before the law. 2. States Parties shall recognize that persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life. 3. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to provide access by persons with disabilities to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity. …....

  8. „Nothing about us without us!“ http://www.amysthreads.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/nothing_about_us_without_us_web.jpg

  9. 2. Consequences for Deaf awareness at universities http://www.csdb.org/adx/aspx/adxGetMedia.aspx?DocID=75,6,1,Documents&MediaID=52&Filename=hands.jpg http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/oct/GroupsOfStudentsOnCampus6lg.jpg

  10. Support available on campus This means .... Quick and uncomplicated access to all information Early contact by the Disability Support Team Open day for the chosen subject area Chance to keep in touch with the Disability Support Team whenever the student needs Good networking!!! http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/images/disability%20support.jpg

  11. Offers for students in classes Sign language or spoken language interpreting Computer Aided Real Time Captioning (C.A.R.T.) Notetakers Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs)

  12. Important things to be regarded by the staff This means .... Care for seating preferences Contacts with the student, not with the interpreter Good visual conditions, clear and natural speech Ensuring communication fluency Assistance for students to get a notetaker Use of visual aids and chalkboard Providing students/interpreters with materials Ensuring important dates in written form

  13. What has to be reached for each deaf and hard of hearing student .... „to be deaf in my own way“ Ohna, 2003, S. 10 http://cdn-write.demandstudios.com/upload//9000/800/70/6/29876.jpg

  14. Thank you very much for your attention! http://www.orangerie-shop.de/ores/ecards/Natur/Blumen/Mohn_Blume.jpg

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