Name of teaching material
Structure of the ear and mechanism of hearing self-made product
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| Target | First grade of the general course of upper secondary division |
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| Disability category | deaf and hard of hearing |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living |
| Specific purposes |
The main purposes are to: • enable students to understand in detail hearing physiology, differences between sensorineural and conductive hearing loss, and hearing aid selection • encourage them to accept their own disability and make them think about and explain their futures; the state of their hearing impairment, the support they will need, and the things they will be able to do at university or in the workplace. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
Students study the diagram of the ear’s structure presented in the questionnaire before receiving lectures and think about which part of the ear is responsible for their own disabilities (wrong answers are OK); this triggers the students’ interest in the ear. Students learn the ear structure through lectures. Because there are many unfamiliar words, presentation materials and videos are used to make the content easier for them to understand; explain how sound is transmitted and perceived by using body movement; illustrate conductive and sensorineural hearing systems; and visualize the characteristics of conductive and sensorineural hearing losses. |
| Expected effects and results | Students increase their interest in, and improve their knowledge of, hearing physiology. They accept their own disability, and they become able to think about, and explain, the things they find difficult to do in everyday life and what they can do about them. |
| How to use |
Flow of learning: • To determine the students’ knowledge levels about hearing and the questions they have, conduct the questionnaire (“A Questionnaire on the Ear Structure and Hearing Loss.doc.”) • Use the presentation material (“The Structure of the Ear.ppt”) and videos (“Hearing Mechanism.mgp”) and “The Structure of the Artificial Inner Ear.mgp”) to give lectures. • Students fill in the blanks on the learning sheet (“The Structure of the Ear.doc”) and the teacher projects the learning sheet with the blanks on the screen. Pressing the backspace key displays the answers (words or diagrams) in the corresponding blanks. |
| Related teaching materials and information |
Images produced by Cochlear Ltd., Japan were used. See the following for how to create and use “The Structure of the Ear.doc”: • Motoko Nagashima: Education guidance for science in the upper secondary division—teaching by using visual teaching materials and devices, Special Issue 4, Auditory Disorders, 2012, 6 • Motoko Nagashima: Use of digital teaching materials in science class in the upper secondary division, practice case presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Research for the Deaf, Kochi • Bulletin of the University of Tsukuba Special Needs Education School for the Deaf: vol. 35, 68–74, 2013, University of Tsukuba • Foster ability of students with hearing impairment—our practice in the upper secondary division of the Special Needs Education School for the Deaf, University of Tsukuba (School for the Deaf), the Japanese Association of Educational Research for the Deaf, written and edited by the upper secondary division of the Special Needs Education School for the Deaf, University of Tsukuba, 2014 |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Deaf, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Independence-promoting activity, physiology of hearing
- Created 2017-03-02 15:05:50
- Updated 2020-06-08 15:43:57