Teaching Students with Hearing Impairment in a Regular Classroom

Suggestions for Teaching Students with Hearing Impairment in a Regular

•      . Promote the acceptance of the student in the regular classroom

•      Welcome the student to your class.

•      Explain the student’s condition to the entire class.

•      Make modifications.

•      Accept the student as an individual with disabilities and limitations; discuss the student’s condition with him or her.

2. Be sure that the prescribed hearing aids  and other amplification devices are used.

•      understand and explain the use of hearing aids

•      Check hearing aids

•       encourage the student to take care of his hearing aids

•      Be sure if the student has spare battery at school

3. Provide preferential seating

•      Sit the students near the spot where you typically teach

•      Sit the student where he can see you.

•      Sit the students away from source of noise

•      Sit the student when light is on you face

•      Sit the student where he can use the better ear

•      Allow the student to transfer to other seats

4. Increase visual information

•      The student must see your lip

•      Try to stay in one place

•      Avaoid talking when your back is turned to the class

•      Avoid covering your mouth

•      Be sure that the student can lipread you

•      Use visual aids, such as pictures and illustrations

•      Demonstrate what you want the student to do

•      Use the chalkboard

5. Minimize classroom noise

•      Seat the student away from the noisy parts of the classroom

•      Wait for the class to be quiet before talking to the students

6. Modify teaching procedures.

•      Be sure that the student is watching and listening when you are talking

•      Be sure the student understand what you said

•      Rephrase question and instruction whenever possible

•      Write keywords, new words, and other needed information on the chalkboard

•      Introduce new vocabulary words in advance

•      Assign a student as “buddy” to alert the deaf student

7. Have realistic expectation

•      Remember his strenth and weaknesses

•      Be patient

•      Give the student a break from listening when he shows sign of fatigue

ISSUES that AFFECTS HARD OF HEARING HEARING, LATE DEAFENED AND ORAL DEAF PEOPLE

Access refers to the ability to take advantage of all the resources that we encounter in our normal lives. This includes entertainment, information, and social resources.
Oral Communication is the BIG ISSUE for most hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf people, because it is a fundamental capability that pervades a person's entire life. Communications problems increase the complexity and difficulty of many areas of a person's life.
Emergency Planning refers to the process of determining how emergencies will be dealt with. As you might imagine, people with hearing loss are often left out of the process, which means that their needs are ignored.
Employment is a source of many issues for people with hearing loss. There are issues with getting a job and keeping a job. Something as fundamental as getting essential information can become extremely difficult.
Family is generally a source of support, encouragement, and comfort. This is also the situation for many people with hearing loss. Unfortunately, many others don't have that kind of relationship with their family. Many hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf people report significant issues with members of their family.
Hearing Aid Affordability is increasingly becoming a significant issue among people with hearing loss. As the cost of hearing aids skyrockets, fewer people are able to afford the aids that can help them retain personal communications. Fortunately, there is a growing movement to include hearing aids in insurance coverage.
Identity issues are common among people with hearing loss. They often consider themselves to be hearing people who can't hear. A few are able to successfully integrate into the culturally Deaf community, but the vast majority see themselves stuck between the hearing world and the Deaf world, and involved in neither.
Isolation is a frequent result of hearing loss. Movies, plays, and concerts may no longer be accessible. Chatting with friends can become frustrating and unrewarding, and the person with hearing loss may withdraw further into their shell.
Hearing aids fix hearing loss like glasses fix vision problems. People with hearing loss can hear when they want to. If you just talk louder, people with hearing loss will be able to understand you. 
Services, or the lack thereof, are a source of frequent complaint among the hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf people. Because their disability is generally invisible, they are often overlooked by organizations that provide services to disabled groups.

From "Introduction to Special Education" Ginez,et.al.