Describe the role of teacher in the education of hearing impaired children.
Role of teacher
(Role of Teacher) Hearing impaired people take admission in the class of general teacher also. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the teacher that the teacher should pay attention to such children and provide them with proper help.
In this context the following roles have to be performed
(1) Identify such children on the basis of their behavior and arrange for them to be seated in the front seats in the common room. Also inform this to their parents, so that they get their medical examination done and make arrangements for treatment.
(2) The percentage of such children in the class is very less, so it has to keep in mind the need of other general students as well. Therefore, the teacher should help them according to their needs apart from the class, so that they do not experience much difficulty in the class.
(3) The teacher should have a positive attitude towards them and behave sympathetically towards them.
(4) The teacher should pay more attention to reading and writing to such children in the class and their distance from the teacher should not be much.
(5) The teacher should also see that the use of hearing aids is regular. because in the beginning, children experience difficulty in taking the help of instruments.
(6) The teacher should speak very naturally and the speed of speaking should not be too fast, because hearing impaired children are able to hear and understand at a slow pace.
(7) The teacher should stand in one place while speaking, because such children have more difficulty due to movement while speaking, because the teacher's speech fluctuates.
(8) After working on the blackboard, the teacher should see that these children have written correctly from the blackboard.
(9) Teachers should be careful in teaching new vocabulary. The help of both speaking and writing should be taken.
(10) Teachers should give more encouragement to such children and should also have repetition in their curriculum. The help of collective pronunciation technique should be taken in the pronunciation of words. As far as possible, the teacher should use more visual aids in the presentation of his content. Important points of teaching should be marked on the blackboard. The teacher should use adapted matrices while teaching, so that the hearing impaired can take full advantage of the teaching. goes ?
