What intervention strategies can be used by parents of deaf children?

      

List the intervention strategies that can be used by parents of deaf children.

  

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Maurice
(i) Exaggerate, repeat and prolong signs to make sure that they are seen and recognized.

(ii) Use signs at a slower rate than you would for spoken language to adult.

(iii) Provide amplification of residual hearing.

(iv) Develop acceptance of the child's deafness.

(v) Learn sign language.

(vi) Use facial expressions to help the child understand the sign.

(vii) Use short utterances.

(viii) Use gentle facial touch to gain the child's attention.

(ix) When referring to things, make signs and gestures near the object.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on August 22, 2017 at 05:38


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