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AHearing is the act or process of perceiving sound, of listening or receiving information. (World dictionary pg 977).

Generally hearing is a nature ability of receive a sound wave, because listening is an interactional attempts of sound wave or message.

Hearing impairment may deaf or has partial hearing. A child is considering deaf, even if not completely so, if he or she cannot hear normal everyday convention. Deaf people can hear loud noises. Although they sound distorted and indistinct.

 Hearing impairment was categorized into two types such as:-

Congenitally, these are people who are born deaf. It was not caused by external factors such as noise caused by heavy machine found in industries but this it appear naturally when a child born. So it is difficult for a child who is born deaf to develop speak or an understanding of spoken language.

Adventitiously, these are people who are born with normal hearing. In this situation a child is born with no such problem of hearing but this can happen when he or she faced with different problems such as an accident or illness become deaf. 

The personal or learners who have hearing problem can be identified in the following ways such as:-

If in the students who turn ear toward a speaker, if students frequently ask to have something repeated, if students do not follow direction and if students frequently complain of earaches called allegers. So this can be the indication to determine the students with hearing problems.

The following are some of ways or steps to be used by a teacher to help students with hearing problems:-

Make sure your students preferential sitting with a direct views of your face and mouth, simply because it could be easier for them to read facial expression of the teachers. So to a teacher must maintain eye contact to the learners this could make a teacher to help those students with hearing problem

Don’t speak while you write on the chalkboard the children need to see your face and not your back simply because this student learns through observation of facial expression. Example lips of the teachers. So that a teacher must follow the rules of using chalkboard when you’re in classroom so as to help learners with such problem.

Ensure there is good writing to reinforce clear sight of visual aid for the aim of helping students to perceive message clearly by observe writings without obstacles to the learners mental. That’s why learners can well afford to receive message of the teacher views (concepts) concerning about subject matter by using any device like projector or chalk board.

Use lots of pictures, graphic materials, by using these could help children to learn and understand the subject matter due to fact that, these students are visual learners. Therefore a teacher need to have these aids so as to ensure lesson are performing well because without having these aids could lead these learners to fail to understand the content provided by a teacher.

Repetition as well as hands activities (use of non verbal signs.) This repetition and hands activities may consolidate what have Teacher taught to the students or to their learners. Examples hands activities could clarify where there is difficult to the impaired students to understand.

Teachers should frequent check to see that the listening devices are working properly, for those students who use device for hearing success frequency moderator (FM). So duties of Teachers is to make sure  that he or her  microphone switch on even frequency  moderator are working properly to the students  so as student  can receive what teacher taught .

Always talk and ask your students questions even though he or she has problem, make them hearing what you said, this is the way to encourage your learners to speak for the case to make higher capacity of  understanding the lesson as a result of formulating a well performing as well as a well rounded students.

Let  students  interact each other, not take role of  interpreter on his or her behalf , give them to feel free in discussion with  others when you teach the lesson in the classroom.Dont be harsh when they conduct several discussion within the lesson  because this can help them to became a well  students and  promoting high knowledge of understanding .

Generally the approach of helping students with hearing impairment to learn, fall into oral approach and manual approach. Oral approaches include a teacher using lip reading and speech reading while manual approaches including sign language or figure spelling. If well assisted a students with hearing impairment can learn properly as normal students who has no hearing problem

                                                        REFFERENCES

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                                                 TABLE OF CONTENT

INTRODUCTION

Ø  Meaning of hearing

Ø  Meaning of hearing impairment

Ø  Types of hearing impairment

Ø  How to identify students of hearing impairment

MAIN BODY

Ø Ways used by teacher to help students with hearing impairment

CONCLUTION

REFFERENCES

PARTICIPANTS

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1	MWALA   SHABAN	TEKU/BAED/HK/12496
2	YASINI      FADHILI	TEKU/BAED/HK/12544
3	KAYUGWA  BONITHA	TEKU/BAED/HK/11684
4	MNONJELA   SALUM	TEKU/BAED/HK/12485
5	NGONYANI  EMERENSIANA  C	TEKU/BAED/HK/12511
6	ABDALLAH    ALLY	TEKU/BAED/HK/12411
7	MCHINYA   RASHID  H	TEKU/BAED/HK/12477
8	SAMSON    COLETHA	TEKU/BAED/HK/12525
9	ERASTO    BETHUEL   Z	TEKU/BAED/HK/12546
10	MAKONO    NURDIN	TEKU/BAED/HK/12471