Stručni rad
Hearing impairment issues
Sandra Bradarić-Jončić
Renata Mohr
Sažetak
The paper discusses the basic concepts connected with the hearing impairment which are important for better understanding of the IFLA Guidelines for Libraries serving persons with a hearing impairment. The basic terms connected with the causes of hearing impairments (prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal ones) are defined, as well as the types of hearing loss with respect to the degree of loss (deafness, hard of hearing), the time of hearing impairment onset (pre-lingual, post-lingual), and the location of hearing impairment (conductive, perceptive, and mixed). Furthermore, specific features of the hearing impaired persons communication are presented, with an emphasis on lip-reading skills and manual forms of communication (finger-spelling, simultaneous communication and sign language), as well as basic characteristics of the two main approaches in deaf children’s education – the one which forbids the use of manual forms of communication in educational settings and the one which supports it. During the last 15 to 20 years, the huge heterogeneity of the population of hearing impaired people has been even more enlarged by the use of cochlear implants. The heterogeneity of this population demands the availability of diverse educational alternatives, in order to fully satisfy their diverse communicational and educational needs. At the end of the article we elaborate the ways of providing an access to information for hearing impaired people equal to the one of the people with good hearing. Equal access to information for hearing impaired people is an imperative in the contemporary world, supported by recommendations of the World Federation of the Deaf. The essence of achieving such an access to information is to enable hearing impaired persons to receive complete information, with easiness and in the modality she/he prefers.
Ključne riječi
deaf; hard of hearing; manual communication; sign language
Hrčak ID:
80986
URI
Datum izdavanja:
8.10.2010.
Posjeta: 7.030 *