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How do you incorporate a deaf child in a mainstream class and make them feel equal to that of other hearing children in the classroom?
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Activities!!!!!!!! Ask them to participate in a sport - yes its not in the classroom but hearing students know about this player of their school and interact with this player in their classes. If not an athletic like myself, clubs will do, extracircullar activities, leadership groups, and etc. I can NOT emphasize any harder for this suggestion. Its almost a guarantee they will blend with their hearing classmates better and often they develop close friendships because in those activities they find someone who share similar interests such as football, swimming, books, governing student body, etc. Also players of a sport or club members have to be around each other more often and longer than a 1 hour classmate everyday so the deaf student(s) and their peers will eventually learn how to work with each other and bring that into classrooms. Very good leadership development for everybody too. If everything fails, group work in classroom might help some. Personally from experience, all students want from group work is find someone who knows what they're doing (you all know what I'm talking about) and get the work done. No real personal interaction really. So instead of giving them group work, give your students something fun that requires everyone's participation and keep in mind, make sure its comfortable or fair for the deaf student(s) as well as everybody else. Make it fun and enjoyable and your deaf student(s) will blend in comfortably. Again, I emphasize - A C T I V I T I E S!!!
This is wonderful!! I also think that clubs, sports, or group work could allow the students to better get to know someone different from themselves whether it be the deaf getting to know the hearing students or vica versa, and it builds leadership skills! I think that they could all learn life lessons from one another!
I want to add one more thing, please encourage your students to keep trying if they were rejected or left out or feel discouraged. I wanted to play a musical instrument in middle school but felt discouraged because of my hearing loss with music and in high school someone, a non-member, told me to try join Beta Club - leadership something for students who make high GPAs and I felt rejected because the club never invited me and again discouraged because of my hearing loss. Today I wish I could go back in time and smack myself in the head and do them anyway. Kids and especially teenagers still have confidence to develop so they're easily discouraged, disappointed, rejected, all of those negative feelings.
A great teacher makes a difference.
I could not agree more. The more exposure and experience a deaf/hard of hearing student has, the better. :)
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