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education access for people with hearing loss

Access to education is not a simple thing for a person with hearing loss. Because of the great diversity of communication situations in an educational environment, providing access is a complex and evolving problem. Providing access to hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf persons in this environment has only recently been recognized as a problem that requires a solution.

One promising effort has been the collaboration between the Northeast Technical Assistance Center (NETAC), located at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, N.Y., and Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH), based in Bethesda, Md. They have recently announced training materials and classes that address providing access for hard-of-hearing students at postsecondary institutions. Read more about this effort here.

Even with all the accommodations that are starting to be provided for people with hearing loss, taking classes in a normal fashion is still TOUGH! Taking a class online might be considerably easier, especially if the online class has been designed for deaf and hard of hearing students.

The folks at NTID have done exactly that, and invite you to consider their Distance Learning Program.

An ongoing issue reported by people with hearing loss is their inability to take advantage of standard training opportunities. This seems to be especially true for technical subjects with new and complex vocabulary, e.g. computers. NTID has just announced computer hardware and software courses that are restricted to participants with hearing loss. The first courses will be presented this winter/spring, with more to follow. This looks like a great opportunity for those of you who work in this field (or want to).

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April 2013 - Legal Case Casts Light on Accessibility Issues in Medical Education

October 2012 - UM Professors Discuss Their Hearing Loss

March 2012 - Parents of hearing-impaired student sue high school after expulsion

February 2012 - AG Bell Files Amicus Brief Supporting CART Interpreting for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

January 2012 - Medical Billing Training Available for People with Hearing Loss

September 2010 - Deaf Education: Changed by cochlear implantation?

July 2010 - From Mouth to Ear: Acoustic Architecture, Assistive Listening Devices and New Room Acoustical Standards

September 2009 - BHI Urges Teachers to Help Children with Unaddressed Hearing Loss

April 2009 - Standard Available for Improved Acoustics in Classrooms

November 2008 - Researchers Discover HOH Students Underserved

October 2008 - A Place to Learn: How Architecture Affects Hearing and Learning

July 2008 - HLAA Research Symposium: What Research Tells Us of Lifelong Learning and its Impact on Earnings for People with Hearing Loss

March 2008 - NAD Expands College Bowl Competition

December 2007 - Court affirms real-time captioning for 2nd deaf student

August 2007 - Handbook for Educating Hard of Hearing Students Published

June 2006 - Scientific Society Cautions on Use of Sound Amplification

December 2005 - Did you know that AG Bell provides FREE assistance to school programs that have oral programs? Here's Grace Tiessen's wonderful article on the PAP Program!

November 2005 - We often hear about the state Schools for the Deaf. But how much do we hear about the oral schools? Here's a great article that discusses how one of them is working to educate kids with hearing loss.

September 2005 - People with hearing loss have a much easier time attending college than they did years ago; note takers, CART, FM systems, etc. provide today's student with advantages unimagined not too long ago. So why would someone with hearing loss choose to reject all these resources, a decision that surely made school much more difficult? Here's one person's answer to that question.

June 2005 - Have you ever taken an online course and found lecture videos to be inaccessible. If so you might want to tell your school about Project ADEPT.

April 2005 - A report from British Columbia indicates that an inexpensive sound amplification system improves classroom performance for ALL kids - even those with perfect hearing!

November 2004 - Should local school districts pay for cochlear implant maintenance costs?

September 2003 - Have you ever thought about the importance of classroom acoustics to a person's ability to learn? It's especially important to those with hearing loss. Here's a report on Classroom Acoustics from the 2003 SHHH Convention.

June 2002 - Thought about taking classes, but concerned that it would be tough to understand the instructor? Or maybe there isn't a college that offers what you want within a reasonable distance. A new option that might just help level the playing field is online classes. Here's some information on NTID's online offerings.

June 2001 - Here's a double win! A non-profit organization called Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) provides workshops on how to adapt computer and information technology for people with disabilities. That's a win! Oh, yeah, and the courses are online! Another win! Read all about it here.

June 2001 - Most of us are pretty familiar with the famous colleges that cater to deaf folks. Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) are the best known. In addition, there are several regional schools that do a great job of serving the hearing loss population. Here's a press release about some of the programs at the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf in Big Spring, TX.

March 2001 - We've been noticing a real proliferation of online education opportunities lately. WGBH is the latest organization to contribute to these expanding opportunities.

March 2001 - More on online education for people with hearing loss, as DeSales University plans an online MBA for people with hearing loss.

January 2001 - WGBH in Boston has been on the forefront of media accessibility for many years. Here's an article on the WGBH Software Accessibility Guidelines.

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Legal Case Casts Light on Accessibility Issues in Medical Education

April 2013

Win or lose, the medical student who filed a federal complaint against Creighton University for failure "to provide him with auxiliary aids and services to ensure effective communication and an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the School of Medicine" is galvanizing advocates throughout the healthcare community and raising awareness of the educational barriers that can exist for those who are deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHoH). Michael Argenyi, who has bilateral cochlear implants, uses lipreading and cued speech to communicate. He took action against Creighton after his repeated requests for Communications Access Real-Time Transcription (CART) and interpreter services were denied, as detailed in court documents. After a year, the university agreed to provide him oral interpreters and note-taking services for large group lectures, as well as oral interpreters for certain laboratory classes, but prohibited him from using interpreters in the clinic, according to the court papers. Mr. Argenyi then took a leave of absence at the beginning of his third year of medical school, which would have consisted of clinical clerkships. In January, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a summary judgment granted to Creighton, giving new life to Mr. Argenyi's complaint. Now the case is remanded back to the district court for a trial.  Full Story

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UM Professors Discuss Their Hearing Loss

October 2012

"I think my avoidance of social contexts with my colleagues is interpreted as social withdrawal, reticence, or disinterest, rather than what it mostly is: embarrassment that I cannot follow conversations in a crowded environment. So, I 'beg off' or not show up." That comment was made by one of 84 faculty members who said, in a study conducted last year at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, that they had experienced some degree of hearing loss. The hypothesis was that many faculty members with hearing loss just bear up in silence, in a silent world, and the study confirmed it. In fact, that number is probably quite low. We have no way of knowing how many hearing-impaired faculty members did not respond to the survey, but if their number reflects that of the general population (as one would expect), it would be closer to 500. One academician suggested that she did not feel free to discuss her hearing loss until she became a department head and had tenure. Another said he felt a total lack of sensitivity to the issue among the faculty and administrators with whom he interacts.  Full Story

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Parents of hearing-impaired student sue high school after expulsion

March 2012

The parents of a hearing-impaired girl have sued St. Scholastica High School after the girl was expelled for discipline problems that included not listening to her teachers. Aamed Pryor and Niya Jackson claim staff at the WestRogers Park Catholic school was well aware their daughter, who enrolled at the school as a freshman in 2008, had a hearing problem. The girl was expelled from the school, 7416 N. Ridge Blvd., at the end of the fall semester this December after a string of disciplinary "referrals" for offenses that included failure to listen, disrespect and failure to respond to teacher requests.  Full Story