Welcome to Windsor Park’s

AssemblyDeaf Awareness

5th November 2010

How the ear works!

Parts of the ear

The ear is made up of three parts.

The outer ear The middle ear The inner ear

How the ear works!The outer ear

Pinna

Ear canal

The Middle Ear

Ear drum

Tinybones

The Inner Ear

Cochlea

Nerve to

brain

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No ears to pick up the sound Sticky orange wax blocks the ear canal

What makes someone deaf?

sticky ear wax

Burst ear drums Stiff bones No tiny bones in you ear at all

What makes someone deaf?

No hair or water in your cochlea No cochlea

What makes someone deaf?

Hearing Aids for Deaf People

Being ‘Deaf Aware’Hearing Aids

Cochlear Implant

Speical Hairband

Hearing Aids

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People

Things to help us at home

Flashing doorbell

Vibrating alarm clock

Communication

Bright light makes it

difficult to see.

Sit so we can all see.

Some deaf people use sign language to communicate with one another. We use British Sign Language in Windsor Park School.

British Sign Langauage

Days of the week Numbers Greetings Animals

British Sign Language

Alice the camel has 5 humpsAlice the camel has 5 humpsAlice the camel has 5 humpsSo go Alice go Boom boom boom!

Alice the Camel

Red yellow pink greenPurple orange blue

Colours

Red and yellow and pink and greenPurple and orange and blueI can sing a rainbowSing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too

Listen with your eyesListen with your eyesAnd sing everything you see

You can sing a rainbowSing a rainbowSing along with me

Sing –a- Rainbow