Self-Advocacy Scenarios
Scenarios
DHH Myths -True or False?
All About Sounds
HES Vocabulary
100
Explain how your FM system works.
What is it makes the speaker's voice louder and sends it directly to my hearing aid/cochlear implant/BAHA by drowning out background noise.
100
Your Physical Education class may be a difficult place to hear because it is big and echoes sounds. Your gym teacher yells a direction to the whole class across the gym, and you do not hear what your teacher said. Name a solution.
What is ask a teacher to repeat?
OR
What is ask a classmate to repeat?
OR
What is look at your classmates and follow what they're doing.
100
DHH individuals can dance.
What is true?
100
The _____ is the part of the outer ear that acts like a funnel to collect sounds.
What is pinna?
100
The difference of hear and listen is...
What is hearing is involuntary and requires no effort and listening is voluntary and has an intention?
200
Your Math teacher forgot to mute the FM unit and he is having a private conversation about playing golf with your Science teacher. Name a possible solution.
What is you tell your Math teacher to mute the FM?
200
The cafeteria may be a difficult place to listen to because it is very loud. Your friends are trying to talk to you in the cafeteria at lunch but it is too noisy and you cannot hear. Name a possible solution.
What is ask your friend to repeat?
OR
What is you move closer and ask your friend to repeat?
OR
What is ask your friend to write it out.
OR
What is go to a quieter place and repeat again.
200
DHH individuals cannot drive.
What is no?
200
______ is measured in decibels.
What is loudness?
200
The language that Deaf individuals choose to communicate with using their hands, body movements, and facial expressions.
What is ASL?
OR
What is American Sign Language?
300
In the morning, your FM is not connecting to your assistive listening devices. Name a possible way to fix it.
What is turn off the FM Unit and turn it back on to connect to ALDs?
OR
What is change battery to your ALDs and connecting again?
OR
What is tell your Hearing Teacher?
OR
What is tell your school Audiologist?
300
The classroom may be a difficult place to hear due to background noise. It is very important to always use your FM system. Your teacher is giving out directions for the test but is standing in the back of the room (far away from you). Name a possible solution.
What is ask the teacher to move to the front?
Or
What is you move to the back and tell the teacher you need to see their face to understand them?
300
DHH individuals do not enjoy music.
What is false?
300
Pitch is measured in _____.
What is hertz?
OR
What is Hz?
300
The professional who can diagnose a person with a hearing loss.
Who is an audiologist?
400
Describe what you did at your last appointment at the audiologist.
Answers will vary.
400
School announcements can be hard to hear because you cannot see the speaker's mouth as they are talking. You hear the principal talking over the announcements, but you cannot understand what she is saying. You see all your classmates jumping and cheering. What is a solution?
What is ask the teacher to repeat what the principal said?
OR
What is ask a classmate to rephrase what the principal said?
OR
What is ask the teacher to write out the important information on the board?
400
DHH individuals cannot graduate from college.
What is false?
DHH individuals can read and write, and are able to graduate with a college degree.
400
Sound waves can travel through air, liquid, and ______.
What is solid?
400
A student's legal document that plans what a student needs to learn better due to their special learning needs.
What is an IEP?
OR
What is an Individualized Education Plan?
500
Explain how a hearing aid OR cochlear implant works.
500
The phone can be a hard to hear situation because you cannot see the speaker's mouth if you lip read. You are in a phone call with two of your friends because you are on a three-way call, and you cannot follow the conversation. Name a possible solution.
What is tell your friends to only speak one at a time?
OR
What is tell your friends to take turns to talk?
OR
What is tell your friends to repeat what they said?
500
All DHH individuals wear a type of assistive listening device (i.e., hearing aid, cochlear implant, BAHA, etc.)
What is false?
Some DHH individuals are comfortable using ALDs while others prefer not to use any.
500
____ is when sound waves continue to reflect off the ceiling, walls and floor surfaces until they eventually die out.
What is reverberation?
500
List 2 people in the IEP Team.
