Listening ACCESSability

Making Listening Accessible

Welcome to Listening ACCESSability.

We’re here to support your learning and understanding more about hearing loss, Listening and Spoken Language, improving Access to Information, and how to support students with hearing loss in the mainstream classroom.

Our Latest Blog Posts

  • Caught with your pants down!

    Disclosure series part 1: Indecent Exposure Disclosure is a super important and underrated topic in the field of d/Deaf education. Disclosure refers to the act of disclosing something- letting someone know. It is your choice whether or not to disclose your medical information. Like it or not, hearing loss/ deafness is a medical condition- it’s Read More

  • Using Live Captions in Schools

    Captions show a text based interpretation of what is being said in a video or audio stream. They allow those who are d/Deaf, or have hearing loss to better understand what is being said. Captions can either be generated by creating a caption file to go with the video (closed captions), burning captions into the Read More

  • Hearing Loss Types for Beginners

    Hearing Loss Types for Beginners

    There are three main types of hearing loss that you’re going to come across in the classroom setting. In this post we will go through these three types and explain a little about each. Before we get started, let’s remind ourselves about the structure of the ear 1. Conductive Loss Conductive losses are when the Read More

  • Teacher of the Deaf or Octopus?

    Teacher of the Deaf or Octopus?

    I have grown immune to the looks of confusion that almost immediately show up on people’s faces when they ask me what I do for work. As a Teacher of the Deaf (TOD), the work I do is not easily defined by the title. I often sum it up as the ‘Education of the d/Deaf’ Read More