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Caught with your pants down!
Read more: Caught with your pants down!Disclosure series part 1: Indecent Exposure Disclosure is a super important and underrated topic in the field of d/Deaf education. Disclosure refers to the act of disclosing something- letting someone know. It is your choice whether or not to disclose your medical information. Like it or not, hearing loss/ deafness is a medical condition- it’s…
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Using Live Captions in Schools
Read more: Using Live Captions in SchoolsCaptions show a text based interpretation of what is being said in a video or audio stream. They allow those who are d/Deaf, or have hearing loss to better understand what is being said. Captions can either be generated by creating a caption file to go with the video (closed captions), burning captions into the…
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Hearing Loss Types for Beginners
Read more: Hearing Loss Types for BeginnersThere are three main types of hearing loss that you’re going to come across in the classroom setting. In this post we will go through these three types and explain a little about each. Before we get started, let’s remind ourselves about the structure of the ear 1. Conductive Loss Conductive losses are when the…
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Teacher of the Deaf or Octopus?
Read more: Teacher of the Deaf or Octopus?I have grown immune to the looks of confusion that almost immediately show up on people’s faces when they ask me what I do for work. As a Teacher of the Deaf (TOD), the work I do is not easily defined by the title. I often sum it up as the ‘Education of the d/Deaf’…
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So You Have A Student In Your Class With Hearing Loss?
Read more: So You Have A Student In Your Class With Hearing Loss?The start of the school year is that time when you get your class lists, and you find out about any needs that your students in your classes might have. From time to time we find out that one of our students has hearing loss, maybe this is your first student with hearing loss, maybe…