Deaf Awareness

During Deaf Awareness Week children at Girlington Primary School carried out many activities. They learnt about the ear, different degrees of hearing loss, some types of equipment used by deaf people and how to communicate better with deaf people.

A video of the deaf children in the Resourced Provision has been created to show some good examples of deaf awareness. The video will be available soon.

Here are some of the activities the children at Girlington Primary school carried out during the week, which they thoroughly enjoyed.

In school for Deaf Awareness week, the Resourced Provision pupils showed their hearing aids / processors to their class and demonstrated what happened if they did not have these on.  They also looked at the different parts of the ear and labelled these together with the class.  Some other activities in school have included true or false statements about deaf people, which they really enjoyed and had a lot of questions to ask.  The Resourced Provision pupils also enjoyed being teachers and taught their class the BSL alphabet. 

During Deaf Awareness Week, pupils have been exploring how to communicate with their deaf friends. They tried the ‘lip reading challenge’, which was really hard! They learned how to fingerspell their names, and talked about some ‘dos and don’ts’ when communicating with deaf people. Everyone had lots of fun, and worked hard to communicate better and include everybody.

Communicating with your deaf friends

Deaf Instructors have created some resources showing BSL signs for Deaf Awareness week. Here are some BSL signs for you to learn.