Deaf education

The deaf education (including education for such people ) is a field of special education, which in turn is a specialization of the general pedagogy. At the same time it is a field of audiology. It deals with the upbringing and education of children and young people who have special educational needs due to deafness or hearing impairment. They cover all aspects of pedagogical action in dealing with hearing impaired children and young people from early childhood education to the aid of vocational integration. Also becoming increasingly adults in importance.

With the technical (modern hearing aids, cochlear implant) and medical ( soft surgery ) development, sign language is forced in the classroom in the background, as effective speaking, listening and general communication training to ensure the social integration and vocational integration into the foreground.

In addition to the sign language, which occur in the deaf schools in the language learning groups called that ear training is another key element of education for the deaf. The students are using these are led to a nearly natural language, by using their existing residual hearing, hearing aids or cochlear implants reinforced by.