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- Title: Effective Practices in Teaching Indigenous Students with Conductive Hearing Loss.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 195 KB
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Hearing impairment due to conductive hearing loss can have a devastating effect on children's language development, and consequently educational outcomes, especially for Indigenous students, for whom there may be the additional issue of being educated in their second or third language. With appropriate interventions, however, Indigenous students with conductive hearing loss can achieve high standards of written literacy and do well at school. This article will outline some of the key findings to date from a longitudinal study (1) investigating effective teaching strategies to improve the literacy, and hence educational, outcomes of Australian Indigenous students with conductive hearing loss (CHL). Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data, the research has identified a number of teaching strategies that are likely to assist in improving educational outcomes (especially in relation to early literacy skills) and examined the influence of the broader school environment. One common cause of hearing impairment in children worldwide is conductive hearing loss (CHL) as a consequence of otitis media (OM) during the preschool years, especially for indigenous children (2) (Higgins, 1997; W. A. Otitis Media Group, 1993). Among Australian Indigenous children, the incidence of conductive hearing loss as a result of otitis media (middle ear disease) ranks among the highest in the world (McPherson & Knox, 1992), and up to 70 percent of children are likely to be affected (Couzos, Metcalf, & Murray, 2001). The prevalence of otitis media/conductive hearing loss in urban Australian Indigenous children is higher than in the general population and children in remote areas are at even greater risk (Couzos et al., 2001).
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