1. The document provides tips for effectively teaching students with hearing or visual impairments.
2. For hearing impairments, it suggests preferential seating, increasing visual information, having realistic expectations, and minimizing classroom noise.
3. For visual impairments, it recommends reading aloud books to the whole class, using electronic devices for writing, avoiding overprotectiveness, removing obstacles in the classroom, and showing students frequently used areas of the school.
1. The document provides tips for effectively teaching students with hearing or visual impairments.
2. For hearing impairments, it suggests preferential seating, increasing visual information, having realistic expectations, and minimizing classroom noise.
3. For visual impairments, it recommends reading aloud books to the whole class, using electronic devices for writing, avoiding overprotectiveness, removing obstacles in the classroom, and showing students frequently used areas of the school.
1. The document provides tips for effectively teaching students with hearing or visual impairments.
2. For hearing impairments, it suggests preferential seating, increasing visual information, having realistic expectations, and minimizing classroom noise.
3. For visual impairments, it recommends reading aloud books to the whole class, using electronic devices for writing, avoiding overprotectiveness, removing obstacles in the classroom, and showing students frequently used areas of the school.
1. The document provides tips for effectively teaching students with hearing or visual impairments.
2. For hearing impairments, it suggests preferential seating, increasing visual information, having realistic expectations, and minimizing classroom noise.
3. For visual impairments, it recommends reading aloud books to the whole class, using electronic devices for writing, avoiding overprotectiveness, removing obstacles in the classroom, and showing students frequently used areas of the school.
1. Student acceptance: All students want to 1. Reading: When the class is reading a feel a sense of belonging. Welcoming book altogether, try and have the them into your class and being positive book be read aloud to the whole will help other students accept him or class by you or an audio version. her. Being encouraging could also help 2. Writing: Having an electronic device the student feel accepted and that they that can help a student for writing belong. assignments. There are Braille note 2. Preferential Seating: Maybe seating the takers available as well. student near where you teach so that 3. Overprotect: Just because the they can follow your directions/teaching student is visually impaired doesn’t and easily turn around to work with their mean that they can’t do something. classmates if need be. Allowing your Allow them to try different things and student to move when they need to for attempt as many things as desired. class presentations, discussions, or 4. Classroom set up: Removing demonstrations. obstacles that can be in the way and 3. Increasing visual information: Trying to informing the student prior to them stay in one place while teaching so that entering your classroom if there has the student can read your lips and not been a change. have to try and read them if you are 5. Layout of school: Showing the constantly moving. Using visual aids like student of frequently used rooms pictures, charts, and diagrams. Writing such as restrooms, library, cafeteria, the assignment on the board can very and gym would benefit them. Once helpful as well. they are familiar with those areas, 4. Have realistic expectations: Knowing no allowing them to go alone so they matter how hard the student and you try, can feel more independent. they will never understand everything all of the time so encouraging your student to ask for repetition would help. Give them breaks from listening. 5. Minimizing classroom noise: Waiting to start the class once all students are quiet can help. Seating the student away from things that make noise such as pencil sharpeners or the school bell.