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DHHE 0618: Living Successfully with Hearing Loss Level 1
Effective date
September 2020
Department
Deaf & Hard of Hearing
School
Arts and Sciences
Description
This course promotes skill development and attitudinal change towards communicating with a hearing loss. Participants, including individuals who have hearing loss and their partners, reflect on how hearing loss impacts communication. The course allows the students the opportunity to create more effective personal communication, to identify and select communication strategies and tools, to increase self-confidence levels, and to learn to self-advocate. The students practice speechreading; they detect differences in mouth movements, discriminate and identify visual aspects of speech, and incorporate visual information with what they hear with the goal of improving personal communication.
Credits
0.0
Year of study
Grade 10 Equivalency
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Adapt existing knowledge of general communication skills to that required by a person with hearing loss
- Discriminate between groups of homophonous sounds and integrate the auditory and visual aspects of speech with the gestures and knowledge of the speaker, topic and situation
- Identify and apply key communication strategies to strengthen personal communication skills
- Recognize and imitate the assertive behaviours necessary to implement appropriate communication strategies in difficult communication situations
- Recognize and differentiate available hearing assistive technology to facilitate safety, accessibility, and communication
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
None
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 27
Total Hours: 27
Total Hours: 27
Instructional Strategies
Lectures, group discussions, communication (speechreading and conversation) activities, and multimedia presentations are utilized to create an awareness of successful communication skills and provide opportunities to practice, give and receive feedback, and discuss the merits of the various strategies and tools.
Grading System
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Passing grade
S (65%)
Evaluation Plan
|
Type |
Percentage |
Assessment activity |
|
Participation |
30 |
Participation in class discussions, completion of quizzes, and sharing experiences and reflections on class topics |
|
Final Exam |
30 |
Completion and review of course assignment |
|
Other |
30 |
Instructor observations of proficiency of course learning outcomes via rubric |
|
Other |
10 |
Self-evaluation of course learning outcomes |
Course topics
- Hearing anatomy and audiological testing
- Categories of homophenous sounds (e.g., /p b m/,/ f v/, /t d n l/, /s z/)
- Speechreading practice with words, sentences, and conversation practice
- Factors that affect the ability to communicate (i.e., environment, speaker, listener, message)
- Relaxation exercises
- Rearing assistive technology (e.g., hearing aids, telephones, FM and infrared systems)
- Conversational strategies (e.g., repetition, rephrasing)
- Communicating in difficult situations (e.g., telephone, restaurant, groups, children)
- Assertive behaviour (i.e., definitions, comparisons, practice, reflection)
- Body language and facial expressions
- Humour as a strategy
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/. - To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.