Advocating for Your Hearing Needs

Advocating for Your Hearing Needs

Grade 10th Grade · Health · 30 min

What's Included

Learning Objective

I can develop strategies to advocate for my needs as a hearing-impaired individual.

Warm-Up Video

Hearing Like Me - Hearing Loss Community · 8:54

Teens with hearing loss: Learning to advocate for yourself

Guided Notes

3 key concepts

  • 1

    Teens with hearing loss need to learn to advocate for themselves, especially as they transition to independent living.

  • 2

    Navigating everyday social situations can be challenging for teens with hearing loss due to background noise and difficulty seeing everyone.

  • 3

    It is important to be proactive and advocate for accommodations, because you can always learn later that you don't need them.

Practice Questions

3 questions · Multiple choice & Short answer

Exit Ticket

Quick comprehension check

According to the video, what is one strategy you can use to advocate for your needs in social situations or at school?

Complete Lesson Package

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