Students Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing With Autism?

Special education teachers make a conscious decision to work on a daily basis with students who display various disabilities. Some of the disabilities include autism, negative social and emotional behaviors, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, mobility disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, as well as students who suffer from being blind and deaf. When these disabilities interfere with the daily educational activities of a child, the child is in need of the valuable opportunities provided in a self-contained classroom.

Kate Garnett wrote an article entitled from What Are Classrooms like for a Students with Learning Disabilities. In her article she talks about what a general classroom is like to a student with disabilities and how it affects the students. Firstly, she mentions about the classrooms being very crowded where one can be easily distracted. Not every student can give proper attention to the tutor’s question or the topic and very little progress of the student is monitored. So, the good students excel their class but others remain in confusion. She also mentions about the private talk with teachers being difficult and also school life is very activity focused. The student with learning disabilities may feel overwhelmed. Most of the student’s

In the past, many deaf or even hard-of-hearing students were sent away to special schools for the Deaf, and were not able to associate with the hearing at all. Now, many schools, both public and private, have programs to help these students and make sure that they can stay in a regular school that is close to home.

Special accommodations include special ed, elevators, wheelchair ramps, handrails, motorized doors, etc. One time the whole teachers at Seabourn helped a kid who had bad

Autism is increasingly referred to as being part of the autism spectrum due to the variability and degree of its effects. Most children will not have any trouble with pronunciation. The problems lie in using language effectively and getting across what they want to say in a constructive way which will lead to frustrations and behavioural issues when they are unable to effectively express themselves. We then have to adapt our ways of communicating to suits their needs and again this can be done through written, none verbal, pictorial and in some cases through assisted such as

According to Alice-Ann Darrow, Irvin Cooper Professor of Music Education and Music Therapy at Florida State University, Students with hearing loss are difficult to successfully teach music to because instructors are unsure what strategies to use when teaching deaf students. (Darrow 27) Teachers have a hard time teaching music to students with hearing loss because they have the misconception that deaf students have no hearing at all but in reality most deaf students can hear but the students are limited to what they can process. Because teachers have this misconception it's affecting the students ability to learn. These students could be an excellent musician we just need to find new strategies to help these students.

To be an effective special educator, one must possess knowledge of several, various disabilities and also knows how they can affect children so differently. For instance, there is an increasing rate of children being diagnosed with Autism; as a result educators need to be familiar with the characteristics associated with the disease. Symptoms and how severe they may be can vary from child to child, but all autism disorders affect a child's ability to communicate and interact with others. According to Gina Kemp, Jeanne Segal, and Deborah Cutter, specialists in learning disorders and disabilites, most children with Autism will not be able to communicate with the world around them. They have poor social skills, avoid eye contact, and tend to choose self play over group interaction (Cutter, Kemp, & Segal). A special educator needs to know how to interact with these children to have any hope of abiding by the standards of the NCLB. There is no known cause for Autism, therefore, it is important for any special educator to continue in their research in order to successfully educate these children.

Children with autism spectrum disorder will be able to receive increased services in educational settings (Hatton, et al., 2006). Teachers who educate children with autism spectrum disorder may benefit from learning the general characteristics of the disorder and evidence-based instructional strategies. Children may benefit from

Deaf students want to be accepted and not looked upon as impaired in any way and deafness is an invisible or hidden disability so it may often cause the Deaf student to be upset as they are learning who they are and why others see them differently. There are two views of deafness- the deaf, who believe that they are capable of being fixed, perhaps through Cochlear Implants and intense speech lessons that will help them fit into the “Hearing World” or the Deaf who embrace their lack of hearing and the culture that is part of the “Deaf World”. They feel that they are fine the way they

Chapter (29) summarizes the future of schools, supporting deaf children, and some of the pros and cons of attending day or public schools. In addition, there is a definite need of more outside support and general information towards parents of deaf children and teachers. The state should try to fund deaf education programs for both parents and teachers. When a child is in a public school class full of hearing children and they are trying to keep up, there is an issue that needs to be resolved.

I have always been fascinated, though, by the brain processes the individuals with autism go through and how their perception of the world and communication gets affected by this disability. The Autism App wheel categorized each app by the area the student could get a benefit from for improvement and I found it extremely well-detailed. I usually keep a copy of all my school work but I will make sure that I keep an eye on this chart as I can definitely see myself using it in the future with my students. When working with students with autism, I must likely need to keep in mind their struggles with sensory. I need to make sure that my future lesson plans will include differentiated materials that will address a particular’s student needs in a way that he can access the general education curriculum and at the same time with a bigger goal of implementing everything being taught in the classroom to be translated to the real world. AT services and devices could be my best allies when trying to accomplish

Deaf people are not limited by hearing loss and are able to achieve what the hearing people can achieve. Some deaf people are proud of being deaf not from the medical perspective, but from the linguistic perspective. Since ASL is capable of supporting the highest levels of abstract mind-to-mind communication, it is considered to be a rich language. From the linguistic point, the deaf people are viewed as bilingual in ASL and English. Unlike others, their first language is ASL instead of English. There are so many deaf people out there that are teachers, writers, lawyers, doctors, etc. Sharon and Candy, the deaf couples who want their children to be deaf in the article A World of Their Own by Liza Mundy, all performed well academically and are graduates from universities. They see how successful deaf people can be as well as the capabilities of their deaf child. Parents always want to give the best to their children. If Candy and Sharon searched around and worked so hard to get a deaf baby, I am sure that this is what they think the best for that

There has been an increase in the number of children diagnosed with autism or other autism spectrum disorders. It is likely as an educator that you will have at least one child with this diagnosis in your classroom. This paper explores some of the methods used to teach autistic children.

This article discusses whether or not special education teachers, as well as general education teachers, are prepared to teach students with autism. According to the article, autism is ranks at the sixth most commonly classified disability in the United States. There is a very wide spectrum for autism which include disorders like Asperger’s and pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS). 1 out of 150 American children will be born with autism (Autism Society of America, NDb).

According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, students with disabilities should be placed in a “least restrictive environment.” One of the main ideas of this act was to improve the learning experiences of students with disabilities by giving them learning opportunities outside of a special education classroom. The number of students with disabilities being placed in their general education classrooms is increasing more and more each year. The U.S Department of Education’s 27th annual report to Congress on the implementation of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2005) indicates that the number of students with disabilities in general education classrooms has risen to almost 50 percent. This is about a 17 percent increase from the 1997 U.S