Hearing Dogs

• American Sign Language
• 11th Grade

Hearing Dogs 

Go through the following slides and answer the questions listed. Try your best, and work on this quietly and independently. You will receive a grade for completing this. 

Hearing Dogs

What do you know about guide/helping dogs?

Do you know anyone with a guide dog or have you seen someone with one? Explain your answer.

What do you think guide dogs do? Do you think they are only for people who are blind? Explain

Read the article, and answer the questions that follow.

How can a Deaf person benefit from having a hearing dog?

What do hearing dog do?

What is the most important task a hearing dog must provide when they are out in public?

Why use dogs for the Deaf/HOH

Watch the following video (if you don't have headphones make sure you turn on the closed captioning). 

You will answer questions after the video.

Why are dogs specifically used for the Deaf and hard of hearing? Provide examples.

What was something you found interesting or didn't know prior to the video?

How? 

How do hearing dogs help people who are Deaf/HOH (hard of hearing)

How does her dog alert her? Is it the same for every sound? Explain

Let's take a look

Lauren will now show us how he alerts her.

Reflect: Thinking back to what you just learned, explain how guide dogs are helpful to the Deaf community (provide examples from what you just learned)