Deaf Awareness Flashcards
What is a disability?
A physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long- term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day -to-day activities.
What does the Equality act 2010 state on disability
- reasonable adjustments
-interpreter as an auxiliary aid - duty to provide information in an accessible format
Social model of disability
-looks at disability as a socially created issue
- Moves focus away from the individual impairment as a disability
- considers barriers in society that disable an individual
-support and adjustments are focussed on changing the coral environment so that. It’s more inclusive
Deaf
- a person may identify as deaf if their first language is BSL
- deafness is a broad category
It can include people who were born deaf and those who lose hearing at some point in their life
-as people age, the prevalence of hearing loss increases - Hard of hearing
Communication methods for the deaf
-listening and speaking
-lip reading
-sign language BSL
-fingerspelling
-sign supported English
-cued speech
Listening and speaking method
- to aid L and S a deaf person may use technology such as hearing aids, cochlear implant
- several types of hearing aids
- hearing aids don’t mean a person will hear everything
Other technology to aid hearing
- hearing Loop: build into a room, reception desks could have a loop system; some will have a t-system enabling them to cut out background sounds
-personal listener: assisitice listening device: radio aid
-smartphone- speech to text apps or messages
Lip reading
- lip reading isn’t reliable on its own as a lot of sounds look similar
-communication support from a lip speaker : make their own lip patterns easy to read and re speak what has been said with clear lip patterns
BSL
- represents words or phrases through hand signs using hands
- uses English words
-There are regional differences in signs
-people that use BSL may use BSL interpreters to help with communication
-BSL user may be oral or non oral can speak or not
BSL act 2022 legislation
-28 June 2022
-recognises BSL as an official language of ENG, wales, Scotland
-gives responsibilities to governmental departments to report on how it is promoting or facilitating the use of BSL in its communications to the public and also on issuing guidance on how the use of BSL can be promoted or facilitated
Sign supported English
-uses BSL signs in spoken English language order
Supports spoken english language
Cued speech
- helps support use of spoken oral language
- clarifies lip patterns by giving visual cues to sounds in speech
-used alongside standard spoken language
Came to UK in 1970s
Environmental factors affecting listening
- Attention - does speaker have listeners attention?
- Background noise levels
- Position of the person in relation to the speaker- visual causes can they see speakers face?
4.mask wearing
5.turn taking
6.expectations - any unexpected vocab
7.has the person understood
8.communication support - interpreter
Good practice - facial expressions
- a speaker should have good lighting on their face so the person can see facial expressions and lip hands and should avoid standing in front of bright light as this would cause shadow and loss of contrast and visibility of facial expression
Good practice - eye contact
Good eye contact with the person they are talking to. This makes sure the speakers face is visible to the listener so they can pick up on facial expression and pad if there are materials for them to give them time to do this and also the layout of the room make sure the chairs are facing each other And speaking.e
