In the article “Including Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students with Co-occurring Disabilities in the Accommodations Discussion”, it discusses the accommodations for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (SDHH) and those students who are deaf or hard of hearing with additional disabilities (SDHH+) in a hearing predominant school. A recent study showed lack of accommodations in literature for two sub-groups of SDHH+; students with learning disabilities and students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Deaf students or hard of hearing students sometimes have more disabilities than just being deaf or hard of hearing. There are mental and physical disabilities that SDHH+ might struggle with. For example, some additional mental disabilities …show more content…
The researchers found 31 articles by using the keywords “deaf”, “hard of hearing”, and “accommodations”. There are legal requirements in K-12 and legal requirements in post-secondary settings that are compared in instructional accommodations area. In the K-12 setting, the accommodations are provided and monitored due to the IEP. In the post-secondary setting, getting accommodations are up to the student to request but there is more of a variety of accommodations (Cawthon, 2011b). There are struggles for SDHH to retain material in the classroom (Marschark et al., 2009) In the studies looked at, they indicated that in high school speech-to-text made a difference in retain material, but interpreter/note-taker was not as effective (Stinson et al. 2009) and neither did extended captions when watching educational videos (Anderson-Inman, Terrazas-Arrellanes, and Slabin, 2009). There were many complicated factor discussing the students level of hearing. The article states it was hard to make a clear decision on what is definitely beneficial and what was definitely unhelpful in the
Deaf students or hard of hearing students sometimes have more disabilities than just being deaf or hard of hearing. There are mental and physical disabilities that SDHH+ might struggle with. For example, some additional mental disabilities …show more content…
The researchers found 31 articles by using the keywords “deaf”, “hard of hearing”, and “accommodations”. There are legal requirements in K-12 and legal requirements in post-secondary settings that are compared in instructional accommodations area. In the K-12 setting, the accommodations are provided and monitored due to the IEP. In the post-secondary setting, getting accommodations are up to the student to request but there is more of a variety of accommodations (Cawthon, 2011b). There are struggles for SDHH to retain material in the classroom (Marschark et al., 2009) In the studies looked at, they indicated that in high school speech-to-text made a difference in retain material, but interpreter/note-taker was not as effective (Stinson et al. 2009) and neither did extended captions when watching educational videos (Anderson-Inman, Terrazas-Arrellanes, and Slabin, 2009). There were many complicated factor discussing the students level of hearing. The article states it was hard to make a clear decision on what is definitely beneficial and what was definitely unhelpful in the