Living Successfully with Hearing Loss Level 1

This course promotes skill development and attitudinal change towards communicating with a hearing loss. Participants, including individuals who have hearing loss and their partners, reflect on how hearing loss impacts communication. The course allows the students the opportunity to create more effective personal communication, to identify and select communication strategies and tools, to increase self-confidence levels, and to learn to self-advocate. The students practice speechreading; they detect differences in mouth movements, discriminate and identify visual aspects of speech, and incorporate visual information with what they hear with the goal of improving personal communication.

Prerequisites

What you will learn

• Hearing anatomy and audiological testing
• Categories of homophenous sounds (e.g., /p b m/,/ f v/, /t d n l/, /s z/)
• Speechreading practice with words, sentences, and conversation practice
• Factors that affect the ability to communicate (i.e., environment, speaker, listener, message)
• Relaxation exercises
• Rearing assistive technology (e.g., hearing aids, telephones, FM and infrared systems)
• Conversational strategies (e.g., repetition, rephrasing)
• Communicating in difficult situations (e.g., telephone, restaurant, groups, children)
• Assertive behaviour (i.e., definitions, comparisons, practice, reflection)
• Body language and facial expressions
• Humour as a strategy

How to register

Please contact the School of Instructor Education at 604.871.7488 or 604.871.7499 or by email at advising@vcc.ca to apply.
For more information, please see the PIDP Program Content Guide.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.