Section outline
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Terry (hearing impaired)
- Has a significant hearing impairment
- Realises most of the students and staff don’t know that they are deaf
- Extremely concerned about missing key data and facts that classmates would have no difficulty in picking up, particularly in interactive sessions
- Too self-conscious to ask lecturers to use a microphone
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A section describing available technologies, and best practices to allow students with hearing impairments to engage effectively in their education.
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Some important adaptations which can be made to engage deaf or hearing impaired students.