The JSD Teachers for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Team has created a monthly newsletter. The full newsletter for this month can be found at the link below. Stories include:
Top 3 Things You Can Do to Enhance your understanding for DHH - Face the DHH student when speaking. Your expression, and even lip-reading abilities are essential for understanding. Make language visible. Writing things on the board, using pictures, gesturing, using models, acting, and other visual cues are a huge benefit to DHH students. Increase processing time.
Often thought of as wait time after a question is posed, letting concepts, ideas, and questions sink in before a response is expected, is important.
DHH Students are most often ELL Students - Spoken language is not as accessible for DHH students, leaving a learning gap in their native (i.e. English) language acquisition. Deaf children whose native language is a signed language (i.e. ASL), are learning English as a second language.
Closed Captioning - Just a friendly reminder to make sure all videos are accessible by turning on closed captioning or subtitles.
- Check out all the newsletters at the JSD Deaf & Hard of Hearing Monthly "Tips" Newsletters Page
- April 2025 Incidental Learning Newsletter