deaf ≠ silenced

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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deaf ≠ silenced

Deaf students and school library services
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living in a hearing world

  • 15 percent of children between the ages of 6-19 have a measurable hearing loss in at least one ear.
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living in a hearing world

  • A mild hearing loss can cause a child to miss as much as 50 percent of classroom discussion.

living in a hearing world

  • 32 million children in the world have disabling hearing loss

living in a hearing world

  • Approximately 3 million of them live in the United States
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AASL Standards: Common Beliefs

  • All individuals acquire independent learning skills
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AASL Standards: Common Beliefs

  • Equitable access is a key component for education
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Individuals with disabilities education act

  • Child's hearing loss must adversely affect his/her educational performance
  • Not all deaf/hard-of-hearing students qualify
Students with amplification devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may not qualify
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Untitled Slide

Does not consider mitigating measures such as hearing aids

Section 504

  • Equal opportunity to participate
  • Classroom, non-academic settings, extra-curricular activities
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Did you know...deaf students

  • May have lower reading levels
  • May have low motivation
  • May have slower learning development
  • Must pick and choose focus
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what does it mean for me?

be a leader in the fight for equitable access
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your library

  • Collection Development
  • Signage
Content for deaf students

Marvel Comic books (characters of Hawkeye and Echo)

Closed caption and ASL video

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electronic resources

  • Reading Level Searching
  • Visual Searching

technology - apps

  • Apps that allow captioning
  • Voice to text/Text to voice
Explain Everything

Dragon Dictation
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Closed Caption Video YouTube

Beginner's Guide to MLA Citation

https://youtu.be/xPscoqC2F54

what about your own videos?

YouTube can help
Add closed captioning to your own video

https://youtu.be/qxDW1D-M14g

Take the next step

add asl to your video

asl + closed caption

  • iMovie
  • Subtitles
  • Picture-in-Picture for ASL
  • Collaborate with interpreter

learn about deaf culture

collaborate

  • Interpreters
  • Classroom Teachers
  • Students
  • Parents
  • Community

resources

  • ADA, IDEA, Section 504
  • Deaf Bill of Rights
  • YouTube Closed Captioning
  • iMovie Picture in Picture
  • Apps for the Deaf

Resources

  • Eisner, N. (2012, May 2). Engaging Deaf and hard of hearing students in the school library: A handbook for teacher-librarians. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31856
  • Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. (2012, December 14). Nebraska commission for the Deaf and hard of hearing bill of rights. Retrieved March 14, 2014, from http://www.ncdhh.ne.gov/goals_benchmarks.html
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Kim Gangwish
University of Nebraska Omaha
ksgangwish@unomaha.edu

https://goo.gl/KkpsQh

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