Syllabus

Course Code: BSE-402    Course Name: B. Communication Options: Oralism (HI)

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Understanding Hearing Loss in Real Life Context
1.1 Basic Awareness on Paradigms of D/Deafness (Medical and Social)
1.2 Basic Awareness on Deafness and Communicative Access: Challenges and Concerns
1.3 Basic Awareness on Autonomy, Inclusion and Identity with reference to Oral Options
1.4 Oral/ Aural Verbal Options and Realistic Expectations of Family and Teachers
1.5 Importance of Neural Plasticity and Early Listening Opportunities
2 Advance Understanding of Oral Options
2.1 Difference between Uni-Sensory and Multi Sensory Approach in Oralism
2.2 Oracy To Literacy: Why and How
2.3 Speech Reading: Need, Role and Strategies in All Communication Options
2.4 Training and Guidance on Aural Oral Practices for Families and Tuning Home Environment: Current Scenario, Importance and Strategies
2.5 Tuning Mainstream Schools/Classrooms for Aural Oral Communication: Do’s andDon’ts
3 Skill Development Required for Oralism
3.1 Practicing Interpreting Audiograms and Exposure to Goal Setting in Listening Skills
3.2 Practicing Motherese (Addressing/Talking to Young Children) and Age AppropriateDiscourse with Children Using Appropriate Language, Turn Taking and EyeContact
3.3 Practicing Fluency Skills in Verbal Communication: Spontaneous Conversations, Narrations and Loud Reading
3.4 Practicing Skills in Story Telling/ Narrations/ Jokes/ Poems/ Nursery Rhymes
3.5 Ongoing Monitoring and Assessing Auditory Functioning and Speech Development: Reading Model Formats Used for the Purpose (Checklists, Recordings,Developmental Scales)
4 Skill Development Auditory Verbal (AV) Approach
4.1 AV Approach: Meaning, Misconcepts and Justification
4.2 Stages of Auditory Hierarchy
4.3 Understanding Listening Strategies, Techniques of AV Approach and Their Relationto Listening Environment
4.4 Reading Model Plans and Observing a Few Weekly Individual Sessions
4.5 Developing Instructional Material for AVT Sessions Linking Listening, Languageand Cognition
5 Implementing Oralism and AV Approach in Indian Special Schools & Summing up
5.1 Use of Oralism and AV Approach in Indian Special Schools: Current Scenario
5.2 Oralism / AV Approach: Prerequisites for Special Schools
5.3 Strategies of Implementation Oral Communication Policy and FulfillingPrerequisites
5.4 Resource Mobilization For Listening Devices: (ADIP, Organized Charity, CSR, Fund Raising Events, Web Based Fund Raising)
5.5 Reflections On The Course: From Theory to Practice to Initiating Change
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