1. Student Name: Theresa Huang(Cuishan)
Assignment Name: Meeting the Needs of
children and Families (Part1)
Professor Name: Christine Cadieux
Date: March 17th, 2013
2. Scenario #2
You are working as an ECE in a preschool room.
Lily(age 4) is a child with a severe hearing impairment
who has just started in your room. This is Lily’s first
time in a childcare centre, up to this point she had
been card for by her maternal grandparents. Her
parents are new to Toronto and ask you about
services in the area. Thy speak some English but
primarily Cantonese and have two other children(one
little boy 6 years old and a baby girl 6 months).
3. How I feel the needs of the child:
The need for affection—seeking a sense of belong
Parent provide unconditional love by hugging or kissing
the child.
Acknowledge the child’s feeling and be patient
Build confident and self-esteem
Provide praise for good behaviour, such as, sharing,
independence or academic success
Help the child to be proud of her body
4. How I feel the needs of the family:
Be patient to have a good communication.
•Raising the voice, face to face, and provide appropriate
gestures and expression.
Provide unconditional love, a way of let the child is being
love, respect and understanding.
•Hugging or kissing the child.
Acknowledge a rage of emotions.
•Help and support the child to build confident and self-
esteem.
5. The needs of the family: (continue)
Parents need to be support
•Provide opportunity to learn English and the
culture.
Parents need to be help, support and subsidies.
•Lily’s parents have two more children to raise.
6. What is severe hearing impairment?
Example:
When I was a kid, phone conversations with my
grandmother went something like this:
"Hello?"
"Hi, Grandma. It's me, Stephanie!"
(Pause) "Hello?"
(Louder) "Hi, Grandma!"
"Hello?"
(Shouting) "HI, GRANDMA!!!"
7. A type of hearing loss
It causes people have the difficulty of hearing.
Support with technologies assistance.
Severe hearing impairment (usually from 71dB HL to
90dB) as normal is -10dB HL to 15 dB HL.
Severe hearing impairment:
Degree of hearing loss Hearing loss range (dB HL)
Normal -10 to 15
Slight 16 to 25
Mild 26 to 40
Moderate 41 to 55
Moderately severe 56 to 70
severe 71 to 90
profound 91+
8. Pain in one or both ears
Dizziness, vertigo
Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
Pressure or fullness in one or both ears
People with severe hearing impairment have the difficulty of
making out the detail of the conversation. They may feel
embarrassed of asking people to repeat the conversation again.
Signs of severe hearing loss:
http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/severe-hearing-loss-
10/causes
9. What kinds of treatments can help
severe hearing impairment?
1. Hearing aids:
Devices that put it inside or
behind the ears. It is invisible,
very small with a tinny wire that
goes down inside the ear.
10. 2. Directional
microphones:
It helps to make the
sounds coming straight
to you, so that it is more
easier to hearing the
conversations.
3. A telephone switch (T
setting): Filters out the
background noises.
11. 4. Cochlear implants:
An electronic devices that help to captures sound, changes
into digital signals and transfer into sounds. Unlike a hearing
aid that amplifies sound, it directly send sound into the brain.
12. 5. Sign language,
such as American
Sign Language
American Sign Language is
used in the United States,
Canada, Malaysia, Germany,
Australian, Norway and
Finland. It helps you have a
wonderful communication
with people.
14. Provide opportunities for children without
special need or children with special needs to
learn about the sign language.
15. FM systems can help children
with serve hearing impairment to
remove the background noise and
to have a short distance between
the speaker and the listener. So
that they can hear the conversation
more easier.
19. Create custom fit moulds:
•Teach how to use
• Guide you what you need to
know
Follow up:
•Come back to the office to
review the checking after you
use the new improved hearing
for one week or two.
•Also, they provide unlimited in
house cleaning.
20. Repair:
•Two year free repair
ear wax removal :
•A free assessment with our
specialists in only 30 minutes or
less.
21.
22. Reflection
My strength in this assignment would be I have an concept
of that severe hearing impairment means. So that I get an idea of
how to do this assignment. My weakness in this assignment would
be I need to spend my time to look for an explanation of the topic.
Also, I need to find out the agency that suitable for my topic.
Next, do a bit about the agency’s explanation. If I have time to
improve my assignment, I would spend much time on the
research than before because after spend much time on
research, I know how to explain the topic clearly. For this entire
course, it emphases that children with special needs have the
same opportunity to attend or participate in the childcare. We
need to be respect for people from all over the world and also
meet the needs of the child and the family.
