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Deafness/Partial Hearing

It is condition of lacking the power of hearing, complete inability or diminished ability.

When you are working with students with hearing loss bear in mind some common considerations, ways of communicating and possible teaching and learning strategies.

Common considerations:

1. Be aware of learners’ language abilities and learning styles to ensure inclusion.

2. Use a variety of activities during the sessions to enable working between learners with different abilities.

3. Face the learners so any lip readers can easily see you, give them choice where to sit, most of them prefer to sit near the front.

4. Try to reduce background noise.

5. Speak clearly and naturally, at the normal pace, don’t shout.

6. Ensure that there is a plenty of light in the room so the learner can clearly see both the signing and facial expressions.

Ways of communicating:

1. Use the range of technologies including email and texts messaging.

2. Try to give extra time if speaking and showing pictures.

3. Agree and clarify specialist terminology with your learners.

4. When communicating with the learners directly, try to keep sentences short and reword if necessary.

5. Use gestures and facial expressions.

6. When asking a deaf learner a question, make sure it is open-ended to check that everyone has understood what you are asking.

Teaching and learning strategies:

1. Clearly structure your session and write key words on the board or on flipcharts.

2. Provide handouts linked to each activity to reinforce concepts.

3. Provide visual representations of concepts to reinforce ideas.

4. Clearly link key concepts for each session to learners own learning plans, using terminology and visual clues to reinforce learning.

5. Before a lesson provide a lesson outline, lesson notes and references to the learner.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/tutors/inclusive-learning/tutors-article-hearing-impairments
Hana

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Physical disability – Cerebal PalsyCerebal Palsy is a disorder that affects muscle tone, movement – coordination. The impact it has on learning is that the learner may find it difficult to retain the information or instructions. The learning duration will be a lot longer to take into consideration the disability. Behavioural issues may also be experienced within learning. Strategies to overcome this can be of the following:Allow additional time for the visit to support learning and for learner to complete tasks. Ensure that verbal responses are used for assignments or for tests as this may benefit the learner a lot more. Using pictures, signs where the learner can visually learn can benefit the learner as written work they may struggle with. However any writing devices that can be used should be used, so they have the opportunity to choose how they learn. Work with external network to support learner needs – such as their parents, therapist or doctor. It is important to identify and meet the learner needs to get the best from the learner. Without sufficient planning to meet the learner needs will lead to a demotivated learner. As a tutor, we will probably feel frustrated with the visit and therefore this learner may become out of funding which have an impact on the company financially. https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/cp-factsheet.htmlH Tran 

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Physical disability – Cerebal PalsyCerebal Palsy is a disorder that affects muscle tone, movement – coordination. The impact it has on learning is that the learner may find it difficult to retain the information or instructions. The learning duration will be a lot longer to take into consideration the disability. Behavioural issues may also be experienced within learning. Strategies to overcome this can be of the following:Allow additional time for the visit to support learning and for learner to complete tasks. Ensure that verbal responses are used for assignments or for tests as this may benefit the learner a lot more. Using pictures, signs where the learner can visually learn can benefit the learner as written work they may struggle with. However any writing devices that can be used should be used, so they have the opportunity to choose how they learn. Work with external network to support learner needs – such as their parents, therapist or doctor. It is important to identify and meet the learner needs to get the best from the learner. Without sufficient planning to meet the learner needs will lead to a demotivated learner. As a tutor, we will probably feel frustrated with the visit and therefore this learner may become out of funding which have an impact on the company financially. https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/cp-factsheet.htmlH Tran 

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“Self-efficacy is the belief in one’s ability to influence events that effect one’s life and control over the way these events are experienced (Bandura, 1994).”

“Bandura explains how self-efficacy can be influenced and developed, and how it positively effects all facets of human experience. According to Albert Bandura, self-efficacy is not a trait that some have and others don’t (or somewhere in-between). Instead he proposes that anyone, regardless of their past or current environment, has the ability to exercise and strengthen their self-efficacy.” (Buchanan, 2016)

He has a theory that there are 4 ways to build self-efficacy

1) Mastery Experiences: Experiencing life, facing challenging goals, experience failure and use this to build upon, as you can learn from this failure.

2) Social Modeling: Ensure you have the right resources to access role models. To ensure you have the right role model to motivate you to your self-efficacy

3) Social Persuasion: Ensure that the person is the right mentor to provide mastery experiences in a safe and purposeful manner

4) States of Physiology: Positive and negative emotions can influence self-efficacy. It is ok to feel like this to get rid of any tension/negativity.

https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/bandura-self-efficacy/

Helen Tran

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Skinner's philosophy called radical behaviourism- human behaviour is dependent on previous actions. After bad experience action will not be repeated. Good consequence action is more likely to repeat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner 

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Skinner's philosophy called radical behaviourism- human behaviour is dependent on previous actions. After bad experience action will not be repeated. Good consequence action is more likely to repeat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner 

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Hana

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https://youtu.be/QyhhXuWHQLM

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Bandura's theory of Self-Efficacy...have a look :)

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Bandura's theory of Self-Efficacy...have a look :)

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https://youtu.be/QyhhXuWHQLM

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Skinner's theory can be related into working practice by offering praise to the learner when they have completed a task, and asking what happened if they have not completed, did they understand, did they need any help, explanation or just that they didn't bother to complete, revisit ground rules, delays in obtaining certificates. S Warwick https://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html

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Skinner's theory can be related into working practice by offering praise to the learner when they have completed a task, and asking what happened if they have not completed, did they understand, did they need any help, explanation or just that they didn't bother to complete, revisit ground rules, delays in obtaining certificates. S Warwick https://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html

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Behaviour followed by pleasant praise is likely to be repeated and unpleasant praise is less likely to be repeated...... Like training a dog.
S Warwick

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Suggests that work conditions should meet  expectations . For example suitable learning environment, not sitting on a Box in the stockroom.
These factors do not create motivation as it is linked to intrinsic factors.
So by getting the basics right people are motivated by a meaningful goal or outcome and a realistic goal.
Alison /Jon

Smart Leader .com

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enthusiasm for doing something specific like getting fit.....S Warwick

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enthusiasm for doing something specific like getting fit.....S Warwick

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Motivation is a positive action from an individual that makes you want to go out and do a particular action or activity. H Tran 

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Motivation is a positive action from an individual that makes you want to go out and do a particular action or activity. H Tran 

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The desire and determination of an individual to undertake a task 

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The desire and determination of an individual to undertake a task 