: 3 Ways Teachers are Helping Hearing Impaired Kids Attend Online Classes #IndiaNEWS #Disability With the pandemic in force, students and teachers have realigned themselves with online classes. But

3 Ways Teachers are Helping Hearing Impaired Kids Attend Online Classes #IndiaNEWS #Disability
With the pandemic in force, students and teachers have realigned themselves with online classes. But what about students with hearing impairment? How have they been coping during these tough times?
Aravind*, a class 8 student of the O. L. C. Deaf School, Mannakanad, Kottayam, Kerala has been struggling to attend the online classes since school started in the month of June this year.
“All our teachers are well versed in sign language, but the problem arises when it comes to things like speech therapy which requires the teacher to sit with us and help us vocalise. A lot of our learning is completely different from the regular schools and that makes it a lot harder for us,??? he explains.
To get a better understanding of the problems being faced by these students and the solutions they are adopting, we spoke to three professionals in the field.
Here’s what they had to share.
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Asha K. , a teacher at the Government Deaf Vocational Higher Secondary School, Kunnamkulam, Thrissur has been taking online classes for her students for the past two months and shares some of the solutions she implemented to make the online classes effective for her students.
“These students have already gone through a lot of mental struggles because of the restrictions they face every day because of their disabilities. With the pandemic in place, things have become ever harder for them and we have been doing everything on our part to make the situation better,??? she explains.
“We’ve also started making use of writing on boards, screen sharing and visually-descriptive videos so that the learning can be a lot more exciting for the students. Besides this, we also encourage our students to turn on their video at all times and use the chatbox to communicate with the teachers,??? she adds.
Asha also goes onto explain how the involvement of the parents or a guardian is crucial when it comes to online classes.
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