Deaf and blind people are as important as anyone else in this worl. Thus, we have to take their needs serously and start providing them with suitable ways to help them learn online effectively.
Everyone is using technology nowadays; men, women, children, and adults. All of those people are depending on it. On internet, various sources of knowledge, channels, and even companies are available 24/7 for everyone who wants to work, to study, or to publish her/his work. Besides, concerning studying, online learning is dominating the field of education. As a reason to the circumstance, it facilitates the process of learning. Nonetheless, even the deaf and blind people are concerned in online learning. Thus, there should be special methods and techniques to them so they can learn easily online.
There are so many ways that may help blind people during their online courses to get the maximum number of information delivered by the teachers. To begin with, since they don't have the sense of sight, the teacher must design a special syllabus that contains activities that increase the sense of hearing. As a result of depending on the sense of hearnig, the learners become active and good listeners and this helps them remember every single information. Besides, not only remembering, but even comprehending what the teacher has explained is a result of active listening. As an idea of the ways that may help blind people during their courses: listening to Audio-books, Podcasts, videos that are based on oral explanation...etc( everything that is audible). At the end, ignoring blind people is an unethical behavior. So, any teacher is asked to take their needs into consideration, because they are people like anyone else, and they have the right to learn in any way they want wether online or face-to-face.
The needs of the deaf people are totally different from the needs of the blind people in online learning. At first, they need visual aide to learn. Secondly, they cannot speak, yet they have their own language which is Sign Language, and this will help them to make a combination of two affective senses; sight and somehow speaking, better than speaking only in the case of the blind people. Besides, they can use any textbook that is used by any other learner, but they still miss the sense of hearing, that's why many scholars started creating new ways of designing textbooks so the deaf people can rely on them without any need to the oral explanation. In addition, despite the fact that pictures, mind-maps, and any document that contains visual aide are not enough to accomplish the process of learning successfully, the deaf people have high scores in any module. At last, online learning is based on visual effects, videos, pictures,...etc. So, it's the best way to learn for the deaf people.
As a conclusion to this essay, any human being has the right of being educated. In addition, online courses provide everyone who wants to learn with various ways and techniques that simplify any complexity. Finally, the deaf and the blind people are now more comfortable while learning thanks to the new inventions in the digital world.
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