Drawings From Deaf Students
On Climate Change [Pakistan]
Climate Education 4
Deaf Students
Creating a More Inclusive and Accessible World for the Deaf, Deaf-blind, and Hard of Hearing Community
Deaf students often lack access to STEAM materials, particularly those pertaining to climate change, owing to a lack of captioned videos or a lack of resources that are ASL-friendly. They have lost out on chances to develop their creativity, acquire knowledge in STEAM fields, participate in hands-on activities, and learn how to be champions for themselves and their communities because of their hearing impairment. Students will learn about how people have an effect on the microenvironment as a consequence of garbage pollution and deforestation, as well as how the macro environment (i.e. global warming) has an affect on the health and safety of humans, animals and the environment in general. The identification of the activities the humans do which harm the Earth, the various indications of climate change and their severity on different ecosystems, as well as the development of mitigation strategies to reduce human influence on the Earth.
Why We Need To Bring
Deaf Community into an Action
Equity and Inclusion are the blocks of a vibrant, healthy society, and they contribute to the overall well-being of all of us. And, as we can see, there is still a great deal of work to be done in this area. The pandemic has accelerated the growth of the inequality gap in our nation, which was already wide before the epidemic. In reality, it has had a greater impact on the deaf community in certain places than would be expected at first sight. Bring your friends and family along as we take an intersectional approach to examining the significance of continuing our efforts to build a society that supports and appreciates each of its members on equal terms.
Hearing Their Voice
We strive to incorporate deaf children and young people in all of our evaluations. We've seen this before and know it's going to be a difficulty. When doing assessments and research in the nations we operate in, it is common for children to not be identified with deafness until they are six or seven years old, impairing their capacity to convey complex thoughts and opinions. Global pandemic in 2020 meant we couldn't devote the time and expertise we normally would to making sure deaf children could participate in our assessments. ' This meant that we had to go outside the box and be a little more creative, but yet practical. We tried a novel strategy with 20 children towards the end of the year, working with Amara Khalid, a teacher at DEWA ACADEMY FOR DEAF IN PAKISTAN and DESK (Deaf Empowerment of Society of Kenya)
Small groups of deaf students were asked to sketch their answer to the question, "What is Climate Change like?" in order for the procedure to be implemented. Deaf role models who are adept at interacting with deaf youngsters conducted the sessions.
Using this strategy, we gained a better understanding of how deaf children see the Environment. The importance of STEM education emerged as a major issue from the exercise. Children were able to communicate with each other using sign language, play with friends, and hear their classmates encourage them when they couldn't comprehend their instructor. Deaf-friendly instruction was also evident from illustrations of instructors looking forward and allusions to the teacher employing visual aids. It is vital to notice what youngsters include in their drawings, but we recognize that this is not enough to give the whole tale. We must utilize this strategy in conjunction with other assessment methods in order to really comprehend the effect of our work with deaf children.
Sharing via drawing has been a crucial technique for us to try at this difficult time, and we are forward to develop on it in the future year. Deaf children and young people are at the heart of our assessment work, so that our programs may be built based on what we know to be true for their lives.
Greetings From Deaf Students
at our Partner School
American Sign Language (ASL) Certificates
