Education
Give me a fish and I will eat for today
Teach me how to fish and I will eat for the rest of my life
chinese proverb
Tell me, I forget
Show me, I remember
Let me do, I understand
The individual with normal hearing is dependent upon that hearing for the development of speech, language and communication. Apart from the information we receive through direct speech, intonation and stress carries a great deal of information. Much of this information is subtle and therefore missed by the child with a hearing loss. A child born with normal hearing acquires language/information often by osmosis - messages are absorbed through incidental listening; the over-heard telephone call, conversation in the next room or eavesdropping. This avenue for the child born with a hearing loss is generally not as readily available, yet the child is unaware that (s)he is missing out on information, often family news. If asked whether they have heard, children invariably will answer "yes", unaware that the message they heard was not the same as the message that was given. Children especially, do not have the experience or solid language base to understand that something isn't making sense. Assumptions are made that what was heard was what was said. It lays the groundwork for considerable frustration.
- Individual Educational Plans (IEPs)
- ILP Examples - Dogs
- This is an html excerpt of our Integrated Learning Package on dogs.It does not show the full package by far.
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