Literacy for the children with

hearing impairment
Presented By: Sammi Chowdhury
Lecturer
 Unit-8 : Literacy for the children with
hearing impairment
 i. Reading and hearing
impairment
 ii. Teaching strategies for reading
development
 iii. Writing techniques and the
teaching strategies
 iv. Reading-writing materials
Reading and hearing impairment
Development of Reading in children
with hearing impairment
 Firstly: most of them are severely deficit in
their knowledge of verbal language
 Secondly: they have problems in perceiving the
written words as reflecting language code
 Absence of sound system
 The hearing impaired children miss out on
the supra segmental aspects like intonations
emphasis, grouping of words together in a
Phrase, putting appropriate stress
Reading related problems
 Comprehensions of sentence
 Words in isolation
 Multiple meanings
 Get confused with indirect speech
Cont..
 Reading is the main problem for h I
 Vocabulary limited
 Long breathing
 Large word
 ¾ part picture
 Punctuation
 Tense
 Rhythm
Writing problems
 Simple words……
 Sentences are rigid
 Errors of omission
 Errors of substitution
 Spellings errors
 Rarely use relative words: if,like
Teaching strategies for reading
development
 Degree of hearing loss
 Age of diagnosis
 Type of hearing aid
 Age of onset
 Language age
 Chronological age
 Mental age
 Vocabulary level
Writing techniques and the teaching
strategies
 Pre writing skills
 Eye hand coordination
 Conversation sheet
 Picture with word …0ne fourth
 Provide variety of language experience
through various activities
 Use charts
 Complete the picture story