Personal Narrative: My Career As A Deaf In The Classroom

This course has impacted my understanding of exceptionalities and provided increased knowledge throughout the 8 weeks. I’ve learnt new information that will improve my career as an educator to children in an inclusive classroom.
In chapter 9 I my knowledge was increased as I learnt about speech and language disorders. In the IDEA the term speech or language impairment is used instead of speech and language disorders. Speech or language impairment affect a person’s communication ability. Children are impacted in the language area where they are not able to product the five elements of language when spoken or in speech where they may stutter or the fluency of words. The cause of speech and language disorder can be a result of biological or environmental disorder. Children are entering the classroom with different background stories that will …show more content…
Hearing impairment is a result of permanent or fluctuating hearing while deafness is severe that the child can’t processed linguistic through hearing. In the used if the term Deaf with a capital is used to refer to those in the Deaf community. Two factors of the Deaf community is to be deaf and using ASL as a primary means of communication. In the regular classroom setting teachers have limited training or experience working with deaf or hearing impaired children. In this situation teachers require assistance from teacher who specialized in teaching the deaf to develop strategies to provide an integrated curriculum. This curriculum will provide activities for both the hearing child, the deaf and hard of hearing without either feeling left out. The accommodations provided for the deaf and hard of hearing children can also be utilized with hearing children that will be in the inclusive classroom. The deaf and hard of hearing also has the opportunity to receive a cochlear implant and sign language to communicate with others around