Course Offerings

This course helps public safety personnel - police, sheriffs, firefighters, corrections personnel, EMTs, and healthcare security personnel - build a better understanding of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. The course focuses on the daily linguistic challenges this often misunderstood and ignored population faces, and how to live and work with them in a supportive, harmonious way.

Course Objectives

Understand the Deaf and Hard of Hearing(DHH) community.

Learn how to assist members of the public who are afflicted with a speech and/or any level of hearing loss.

Develop linguistic skills that are daily challenges of deaf and Hearing impaired community.

Discuss cultural differences among people who are deaf and/or hard of hearing

Outline of instruction

Background of Hearing impaired training

Cultural differences among people who are deaf and hard of hearing

Developing linguistic skills

Role playing

CEUs

0

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

No

Prerequisites

None

Text and Supplies Needed

Training Material/Pen/Pencil

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

Telecast classes will need a camera in the classroom for students to view the instructor. A facilitator should be available in the classroom.

Requirements for Successful Completion

attendance

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

Law enforcement, private security, hospital personnel, fire and EMS, Correctional personnel

Specific Industry or Business Support Needs

N/A

Wake County Need for Industry Positions

N/A

Industry or Job Titles Related to training Outcomes for Employment

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Course Contact Information

Joyce Vaughan
919-866-6102
[email protected]