On 07/10/11 19:24, Clare Trott wrote:
> I am posting on behalf of a maths support centre in Ireland. They
> have a maths student who is profoundly deaf but does not lip-read or
> sign. They are struggling to help the student when in the centre.
Does the student have any usable residual hearing? I'm guessing not
much or at least the student isn't able to parse speech well enough to
be useful.
Can the student read and write reasonably well? A lot of deaf people
can do entire conversations by written notes which feels very odd but is
not unusual.
What kind of level of education are we talking here? Also how old is
the student?
What does the student say about past teaching/learning methods?
I'm wondering whether you're looking at teaching student and tutors in
the maths support centre fingerspelling (BSL or ISL - whatever's the
local language in use) and using a combination of reading,
writing/typing, drawing diagrams and cueing speech with the fingerspell
in the short term.
I'll have some better ideas once I know a bit more about the level.
Natalya
|