Hard of Hearing Training

A tutorial to helping professors better understand their students and giving them the tools to
effectively reach out to all of their students.

Opening Survey

What Is SLCC Known For?

Small class sizes
Affordable tuition
Great professor-student relationship
High quality in associate education
How can we enhance the quality in the ProfessorStudent relation?

Video

Disadvantages, Why dont they just say so?

They dont want to interrupt
They feel like its disrespectful
They feel embarrassed and uncomfortable

3 simple solutions
Implementing a Get to Know You Quiz
Using Captions
Tweaking your Personal Teaching

Solution #1-Get to Know You Quiz

Reaches out to students
Closer student to teacher interaction
Students can confront you about struggles comfortably

Solution #2-Closed Captions

15% grown adults report some trouble hearing
Hearing aids dont mean true hearing
Brain will adjust
Could help all your students

Solution #3-Personal Teaching

Small simple things help!
Visual Aids
Face the class, especially hard of hearing student (if
aware)
Repeat students answers

Conclusion

SLCCs Legacy
Interviews
Solution #1-Quiz
Solution #2-Captioning
Solution #3-Personal Teaching

You can make a difference!