It’s a Hearing, Hearing World: A Life Skills Workshop for Hearing-Impaired Students

A workshop model designed to help hearing-impaired students develop business survival skills and to serve as a motivational tool for their career planning as well as to help business leaders develop an awareness of the communication problems of the hearing impaired is described. This type of workshop may be used for students in both mainstreamed day programs and residential schools for the deaf, as well as in regular day or oral programs for the deaf. The initial workshop was presented by the Kiwanis Club of Greater St. Augustine and the State of Florida’s Department of Vocational Rehabilitation in collaboration with the Florida School for the Deaf’s Office of Community Education.