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Deaf students Thomas Tallis
• 24 deaf students in the school
• What does deaf mean?• Any hearing loss • Impaired access to speech sounds• Most deaf students have additional needs
Myths
• Deaf students can all understand fluent British Sign Language
• Deaf students can read the material• Subtitles provide full access
Important to know
• 95% of deaf students have hearing parents and therefore no natively fluent language model at home
• Most deaf students have disordered language skills• Most deaf students have working memory problems• Most deaf students have delayed socio emotional
development
Reading in Deaf students
• Seminal Study by Conrad in 1979• Half of deaf school leavers leave school at 16
years with a reading age of 7 years (functionally illiterate)
• Less than 15% had a functional reading age (11 – 12 years)
• None had an age appropriate reading score• Lichtenstein 1998 repeated these results
Functional reading includes
• Newspapers• Emailing• MSN• Texting• Information at work• Leaflets• Road signs• Safety information• Food labels
• Higher incidence of mental health problems• Development of identity usually transitions in
secondary school as children develop a bi-cultural identity: deaf community and hearing community
What can I do to support deaf students?
• Planning in advance• Speak to the student not the staff supporting• Do not ask deaf children to copy or read large
amounts of text• Subtitle all clips including ‘You tube’, if you
give us notice we will try to help• Key words
Reading
• Urban regeneration: Improvements to housing, jobs , leisure and the environment in a town or city.
Regeneration in London 2012
in London 2012
Regeneration in London 2012
• One of the most positive outcomes of London winning the bid to host the London 2012 Olympic games is the amount of Urban regeneration that will take place. The Olympic park is a perfect example of Urban regeneration. The regeneration and development of the Lower Lea Valley in east London, the site for the Olympic Park, will:
Source of information
• A London 2012 Education resources : Linked to GCSE language levels
Highlighted words not in vocabulary
• One of the most positive outcomes of London winning the bid to host the London 2012 Olympic games and Paralympic games is the amount of Urban regeneration that will take place. The Olympic park is a perfect example of Urban regeneration. The regeneration and development of the Lower Lea Valley in east London, the site for the Olympic Park, will:
Misread words
• One of the most positive outcomes of London winning the bid to host the London 2012 Olympic games and Paralympic games is the amount of Urban regeneration that will take place. The Olympic park is a perfect example of Urban regeneration. The regeneration and development of the Lower Lea Valley in east London, the site for the Olympic Park, will:
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Meaning lost……
Words student did not understand in this piece
• Urban• Regeneration• Environment• Outcome• Host• Bid• Olympic• Paralympics• example
• Development• Speed up• During• Raise awareness• Amenities• Restore• Residents• Beyond• Activities• Take place
Vocab devt is disordered: Choose words for life
• Urban• Regeneration• Environment• Outcome• Host• Bid• Olympic• Paralympics• example
• Development• Speed up• During• Raise awareness• Amenities• Restore• Residents• Beyond• Activities• Take place
What the students say…….
• There are a lot of new words on my course.• Sometimes I know the word and can’t remember the sign.• Sometimes the word is signed to me but when I see the word
written down I can’t recognise it.• What helps you learn new words?• I will write down about 12 words. I like a picture of the sign
next to the word. I can sit and read and sign to myself, maybe each one five times and then I need to repeat this every day for two weeks and then in the end maybe I am ready to learn some more words.
Challenges to word learning
• May recognise the word but not have a solid meaning (semantic representation) of it
• Knows lots of empty words
• Using context to guess• Problem of visually similar
words• Difficulty of words whose
signs have more than one meaning
• May have poor phonological representations
• May be poor lip readers
The sign for all of these words is the same: context is used to understand
• probable• possible• probability• possibility• potential• can • could
Remember
• The students are individuals. These are broad explanations
• Keep expectations high but achievable
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