FRHD 2110 Lecture Notes - Decibel, Inner Ear, Ossicles
15 Apr 2013
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Chapter 10-learners who are deaf or hard of hearing (pg 260-292) Most people who are deaf have some residual hearing(amount of hearing remaining after hearing loss)-different in all cases. One cannot predict the severity of an exceptionality, but generally people who are deaf possess more difficulty than individuals who are blind because they have lost the ability to understand and speak oral language. When reading lips, people who are deaf also take advantage of reading visual cues (facial expression) this is call speech-reading. Asl is a true language and possess its own set of grammatical rules. People in the deaf community see separate placements as a way of fostering the deaf culture. People who are deaf or hard of hearing may experience isolation due to communication problems. Decibels-units of loudness of sounds, 0 db is people with normal hearing can just detect sound.
