DEAF EDUCATORSBy: Raquel Mendoza

WHAT IS DEAF EDUCATION?

Deaf Education is a professional field for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Deaf Education provides a great foundation and career options for individuals who are interested in working with this unique population of students.

We are teachers specifically for students that are deaf or hard hearing.

WHERE DO DEAF EDUCATORS WORK?

Private schools for the deaf Public Schools (Government law states every

child has the right to receive an appropriate education.)

Clinics Tutoring Exclusive settings

CAN EXPAND THEIR CAREERS:

Speech language Pathology Career Technology Audiology School Counseling Social Work Educational Administration Etc.

METHODS USED TO TEACH

American Sign Language (ASL) English Sign Systems Group seating Working with students who use fm

transmitters and/or who have hearing aid/s or cochlear implants.

Government law states every child has the right to an education.

BECOMING A DEAF EDUCATOR

Oral-Aral Programs- Bilingual-Bicultural

Programs- Comprehensive

programs-

Hold all-level teacher certification and may teach pre-school through high school.

Have a Masters Degree in Deaf Education to be fully certified.

A Masters degree can take up to six years.

Types of Programs Certification

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