Special Education
Hearing Impairment

Here are some tips for helping students with hearing impairments.

  
  • Provide signing
  • Preferential Seating (to read lips, not necessarily in front)
  • Avoid oral tests, quizzes, directions
  • Phonic Ear
  • ASL
  • Use Visual Aids
  • Sign Language interpreter
  • Proper lighting for overheads
  • Closed caption (videos)
  • Notetaker provided
  • Copy of notes or teachers notes to student (or partial notes for active completion during class
  • Lectures on tape for headphone use
  • Use books on tape
  • Use computers as a tutorial for repetition
  • Increase spaces for answers
  • Peer tutoring
  • Pair share
  • Cooperative learning
  • Use physical cues
  • Light or other visual signal to get attention
  • Provide written directions in addition to auditory
  • Wait time or extended time
  • Multi-sensory learning
  • Use visual cues to emphasize important items (Bold print, Italics)
  • Use sign language
  • Use computer to aid in communication (Write Out Loud, Co-Writer)
  • Reduce the number of questions, problems per page
  • Use a scribe