Chapter 14
Understanding Students with Hearing Loss
Chapter Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
• Define and identify the characteristics of students with hearing loss
Chapter Overview/Presentation Outline
I: Introduction
Slide 2: Chapter 14 Objectives
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II. Identifying Students with Hearing Loss
Slide 3: Defining Hearing Loss
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Slide 6: The Hearing Process
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Slide 7: Anatomical Structures of the Ear
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III. Evaluating Students with Hearing Loss
Slide 12: Determining the Presence
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IV. Designing an Appropriate IEP
Slide 14: Partnering for Special Education and Related Services
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services
V. Using Effective Instructional Strategies
Slide 16: Early Childhood Students
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VI. Assessing Students’ Progress
Slide 20: Measuring Students’ Progress
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Class Activities
1. At the beginning of class, have students read the case study at the beginning of the chapter.
2. Have students create a brochure about the disability addressed in the chapter. The brochure
can be trifold and include: a definition of the disability, causes of the disability, characteristics of
3. Assign each student or pair of students a disability. Have the students prepare a class
presentation of the disability to include definition of the disability, causes and prevalence,
5. Sound and Fury © 2000, 80 minutes—Show a portion or all of Sound and Fury and allows
students to discuss the film.
6. At the end of class, have students revisit the case study at the beginning of the chapter. Use the
questions at the end of the chapter, “What do you think?” to facilitate discussion.