Hard of hearing students

Article Link: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/2a/2a/78.pdf This article discusses the education of deaf or hard of hearing children with regard to the Total Communication (TC) approach. The authors, L. Hawkins and J. Brawner, note that TC is not a method of educating deaf or hard of hearing children, but rather a philosophy of communication. TC reflects the use of a blend of oral, manual, auditory, …

…the child to use all the techniques and focus on the ones which aid them the most in communicating. We need to take into consideration that each child is different and some may feel more comfortable using auditory skills rather than written, or vice versa. Overall, I feel this approach is most beneficial due to the fact that the child can use various forms of communications and utilize the ones they are most comfortable with.