Teaching Communication to Deaf Students so as to Help Then Live Independently

An independent living teacher is often seen as a second mother or a second father from a student. Working as our teacher not only teaches students about learning but also takes care of them and guarantees that they are well developed. Teachers need to prepare students for the future so that they can live independently as adults. Hearing impaired students tend to have more difficulty than listening students compared to adult living. Our role as a teacher of hearing impaired is to raise functional life, social exchanges, and self-propagation skills for hearing impaired and hearing impaired.

Hearing impaired students (whether before the language is born or deaf or hearing impaired) or deaf or hearing impaired before the language without any other obstacles are diverse group students. While teaching these students needs to consider many factors, the main element is language development. Hearing impaired students learn languages ​​in various ways according to the family's environment. Language development plays an important role in learning literacy skills of students. There are some things in common with language development between students with hearing disabilities and listening students. Language development depends on frequent, consistent, easy-to-use communication. These factors are the same for an audible parent and an inaudible parent. Communication (signature or spoken language) is not a factor (Marschark 2001)

Early nineteenth century was an important period in American sign language development. In 1815, a man named Thomas Gallaudet began to be interested in the education of the hearing impaired, so he went to Europe to learn how to communicate with the hearing impaired. He is 27 years old and studied at a hearing impaired school in Paris for several months. So Gallaudet returned to the USA and brought a sign language teacher Lauren Clerqu from the Paris deaf. Thanks to experience in Europe, Gallaudet opened the first deaf school and Clerc became the first sign language teacher in the United States. Today, it is used by over 500,000 people in the United States and Canada.

When studying the teaching method of LSF in Paris, Gallaudet comes to America to help establish a school for hearing impaired at Laurent Clerc (a deaf teacher who is also a graduate of the school) I asked. Laurent Clerc accepted Gallaudet's invitation to the United States. During the voyage to America for 60 days, Gallow taught Craig English and Craig taught Gallaudet LSF. (Laurent Clerc, Introduction) In 1817, Gallaudet and Clerc opened the first school in Connecticut. In Hartford, it is known as Connecticut Hearing Impaired and Hearing Disabled Educational and Educational Shelter (now known as the American hearing impaired school). By the end of the first year, 31 students from various New England cities included students from Massachusetts Martha vineyards and New Hampshire hennikers.