Accommodations for Educators who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

From the desk of Teresa Goddard, M.S., Lead Consultant – Sensory Team

Summer has barely begun, but JAN is already receiving inquiries about educators who will need accommodations when school resumes.  Today I’d like to introduce some of JAN’s most commonly discussed accommodation ideas for educators who are deaf or hard of hearing.

One point that is on everyone’s mind these days is masks. Currently, in some settings employees who are deaf are providing clear face masks to people with whom they need to communicate, but these are hard to get now. I think that the global pandemic caught everyone who makes, sells, and uses clear face masks by surprise. Supplies are low. There is one FDA-approved surgical facemask with a clear window and others that are clear except for the filtering materials. For example, the Totobobo can be cleaned and reused but was not designed with lip reading in mind.

There are also programs making reusable masks with clear windows and providing instructions on how to make such masks. However, feedback from JAN consumers shows that handmade options tend to fog up and may be very hot to wear outdoors or in areas without effective climate control. Commercial options have also recently [...]

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