Characteristics+and+Needs

Characteristics and Needs of Disabilities
 * textbook and online research

Characteristics:

Needs (Varies by beliefs):
 * Congenital Hearing losses and more difficulty with language development.
 * May hear some loud sounds, but are more likely to sense vibrations and may rely on vision rather thatn hearing as a primary vehicle for communication.
 * Causes can be heredity, prenatal infections; such as maternal rubella, ear infections, meningitis, head trauma, prematurity, and oxygen deprivation.
 * Conductive
 * the outer or middle ear along the passageway is damaged.
 * Sensorineural
 * the inner-ear is damaged
 * Academic and cognitive deficencies.or developmental lags due to difficulties processing language.


 * Total Communication
 * using speech (lip) reading
 * gestures
 * sign language
 * or both manual and oral methods
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">ASL
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">American Sign Language
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">not phonetically based
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">each word has its own part
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">hand shape
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">location
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">movement
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">you can finger spell
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">spelling out each word with a sign corrisponding with letter.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Set student close to the front to maximize hearing speach and lip reading.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Use technology
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">hearing aids
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">television captioning
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">TTY
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Computer-assisted instruction