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8/12/2019 Deaf Awareness Lesson Plans

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Communication in everyday lifeThe Look, Smile, Chat campaign is aimed at all secondaryschool and college students to help them understand what

its like to be a young person who cant hear well, and howto make communicating easy for everyone.

Structure of LessonIntroduction activities (10 minutes each)Main activities(30 minutes each)Plenary activities(10 minutes each)Approximate times have been given as a guide only. It is up toyou to pick and mix, and to determine the amount of time you

can spend on each activity.

Introduction to lesson plan oneThe suggested activities encourage students to think aboutthe everyday interactions they take for granted, such aschatting in the playground or in the lunch queue, and toconsider how being deaf might impact on their ability toparticipate. It is hoped that they will challenge stereotypesand encourage young people to empathise with the issuesthat deaf young people face.

Chatting is an important part of ourdaily lives, whether we are deaf orhearing. The suggested activities andresources show how being aware ofsome of the barriers to everydayconversations can help to overcome them.

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Aims>To create an understanding

of the impact of deafnesson communication in a range

of everyday situations.

>To develop awareness ofa range of communicationstrategies to include deafpeople in everydayinteractions.

MethodThe introductions, mainactivities and plenarysessions can be used invarious combinations.Depending on time availableand the composition of theclass, components can eitherbe selected to run a wholeclass lesson or two or moreconcurrent small group

activities.

NDCS uses the term deaf torefer to all levels of hearing loss.

Materials from other sources mayuse other descriptors, includingD/deaf, partially hearing, partially

deaf, hearing impaired, hard ofhearing or deafened.


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Aims> To raise awareness of the

ways in which communicationmay be adapted to different

situations and audiences,especially whencommunicating withdeaf people.

There are lots of ways to chatThe Look, Smile, Chat campaign is aimed at all secondaryschool and college students to help them understand whatits like to be a young person who cant hear well, and how tomake communicating easy for everyone.

Structure of LessonIntroduction activities(10 minutes each)

Main activities (30 minutes each)

Plenary activities(10 minutes each)

Approximate times have been given as a guide only. You can

pick and mix, and determine the amount of time you canspend on each activity.

Introduction to lesson plan twoThe suggested activities encourage students to think aboutthe everyday interactions they take for granted, such aschatting in the playground or in the lunch queue, and toconsider how being deaf might impact on their ability toparticipate. We all have a vast range of communicationstrategies at our fingertips, in addition to face-to-faceconversation. The activities should encourage students to

become more aware of how employing different strategiescan improve understanding and inclusion in a variety ofsituations.

The overall aim of the Look, Smile, Chat campaign is toimprove communication so that deaf children and youngpeople feel included in and outside of school. It extendsbeyond Deaf Awareness Week and can be reinforcedthroughout the year by:

showing the films on information screens in reception orthe hall, and in assembly to support a variety of themeslinked to inclusion

nominating lead people to share the films at schoolmeetings, e.g. school council or governors meetings

inviting deaf adults to visit and talk about their lives, e.g. tosupport citizenship, careers, PSHE or history topics.

Chatting is an important part of our daily lives, whether weare deaf or hearing. The suggested activities and resourcesshow how there are many ways to engage with another

person from having a welcoming demeanour, using positivebody language, using fingerspelling, etc.

MethodThe introductions, mainactivities and plenary sessionscan be used in variouscombinations.

Depending on time availableand the composition of theclass, components can eitherbe selected to run a wholeclass lesson or two or moreconcurrent small groupactivities.

Video clips should be usedto stimulate discussion andsupport activities.


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Being a good communicator is beneficial for everyone. Itwill help in your relationships with people, learning a newlanguage, in expressing yourself, with how to communicatewith people from different countries, as well as in reading andusing body language, e.g. at a job interview.

Students may be asked how they communicate withpeople when they go abroad. How do students manage to

communicate if they dont speak the language of the country?Ask students how they would order a pizza in Italy, wouldthey point at the menu or gesture to show what they want?How would they buy stamps so they can send postcards totheir friends? How would they get directions to a famouslandmark? This shows that if students dont know howto speak a particular language, there are ways of makingthemselves understood other than through words, e.g. facialexpressions, hand gestures, pointing, etc.

Students may ask if they need to learn sign language to

communicate with a deaf person. It is often assumed thatdeaf people (a) cannot hear anything at all and (b) alwaysuse sign language. A hearing person may think they willnot be able to chat with a deaf person. It may be helpfulto start the lesson by asking students how they think deafpeople communicate. Deaf people use many different waysto communicate. Some use sign language, others maycommunicate using speech, and some rely on lipreading andresidual hearing using their hearing aids or cochlear implants.There is no one way of communicating with people and mostchoose the way in which they feel most comfortable, which

may vary in different situations.

British Sign LanguageThere are thousands of different spoken languages usedaround the world and hundreds of signed languages usedby deaf people in different countries. In the UK, British SignLanguage (BSL) is used and it is recognised as an officialUK language. Just like these other languages, it has itsown vocabulary, grammar and idioms, using hand shapes,

positioning and facial expressions in place of spoken wordsand voice inflections.

In the same way that you cant do a word by word translationfrom English into, for example, Spanish or Chinese, thereis not always a straight word for sign exchange into BSL.However, as with all foreign languages, learning just a few keyphrases and showing willing can be a big help in starting achat!

Curriculum links

EnglandNational Curriculum Key Stages3 and 4 ICT 1.2 Communicationand Collaboration; 1.4 Impact ofTechnology; PSHE 1.1 PersonalIdentities; 1.5 Diversity

Northern IrelandCurriculum Key Stage 3 ThematicUnits Personal Understanding;Year 10 Employability; KeyStage 4 Cross-Curricular Skills;Learning for Life and Work

ScotlandCurriculum for Excellence 318Education for Citizenship

WalesKey Stages 3 and 4 PSEWorking with Others,Developing ICT

Some deaf young peopleare oral, some use BritishSign Language and some

use a combination ofspeech and sign


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