NCKU Recruited Classroom Typists for Hearing-Impaired Students
Tainan, Taiwan, December 2nd, 2010
Since the second term of the academic year of 2008, Office for Disability Service of Student Counseling Division at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, has recruited classroom typists for hearing-impaired students to help them integrate into the studying environment and make up information they may have missed due to impaired hearing ability.
Hearing-impaired students often have difficulties in hearing the words of their teachers and understanding why their classmates are laughing, thus they lose their enthusiasm and motivation for the lectures over time and gradually become the “outsiders” of the classroom.
Counselor Wei-Lun Chen of Office for Disability Service, Student Counseling Division, expressed, “Many hearing-impaired students feel like outsiders in the classroom, suffering from loneliness and hopelessness, and can only participate in limited interaction with the outside world in their own fantasy world. Thus, the classroom typing service for hearing-impaired students arranges typists to accompany the hearing-impaired students in a classroom. The typists will immediately transfer the audio messages into texts on notebooks for the hearing-impaired students to quickly perceive information of their surrounding. The hearing-impaired students can also strengthen their interpersonal relationship from working with the typists.”
National Cheng Kung University currently has 22 hearing-impaired students. According to the statistics, in the first term of the academic year of 2009, the university has 20 typists assisting 6 hearing-impaired students, and in the second term of the academic year of 2009, it has 11 typists assisting 5 hearing-impaired students.
Counselor Wei-Lun Chen also mentioned, “The typists are all undergraduate students. Normally, the typists have to maintain high concentrations and responsibilities, and they cannot be too self-centered, or else they will not be able to communicate with the hearing-impaired students. Once the typists have made a promise, they have to be responsible for the classroom typing work for an entire term. Since many typists already have heavy schoolwork, the typing work may become a burden for them.”
However, to overcome this difficulty and to provide better service quality, the Office for Disability Service has opened a class about typing service learning for more students to understand the spirit of classroom typing, hoping to attract more students to join the typing service team.
Since the second term of the academic year of 2008, Office for Disability Service of Student Counseling Division at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, has recruited classroom typists for hearing-impaired students to help them integrate into the studying environment and make up information they may have missed due to impaired hearing ability.
Hearing-impaired students often have difficulties in hearing the words of their teachers and understanding why their classmates are laughing, thus they lose their enthusiasm and motivation for the lectures over time and gradually become the “outsiders” of the classroom.
Counselor Wei-Lun Chen of Office for Disability Service, Student Counseling Division, expressed, “Many hearing-impaired students feel like outsiders in the classroom, suffering from loneliness and hopelessness, and can only participate in limited interaction with the outside world in their own fantasy world. Thus, the classroom typing service for hearing-impaired students arranges typists to accompany the hearing-impaired students in a classroom. The typists will immediately transfer the audio messages into texts on notebooks for the hearing-impaired students to quickly perceive information of their surrounding. The hearing-impaired students can also strengthen their interpersonal relationship from working with the typists.”
National Cheng Kung University currently has 22 hearing-impaired students. According to the statistics, in the first term of the academic year of 2009, the university has 20 typists assisting 6 hearing-impaired students, and in the second term of the academic year of 2009, it has 11 typists assisting 5 hearing-impaired students.
Counselor Wei-Lun Chen also mentioned, “The typists are all undergraduate students. Normally, the typists have to maintain high concentrations and responsibilities, and they cannot be too self-centered, or else they will not be able to communicate with the hearing-impaired students. Once the typists have made a promise, they have to be responsible for the classroom typing work for an entire term. Since many typists already have heavy schoolwork, the typing work may become a burden for them.”
However, to overcome this difficulty and to provide better service quality, the Office for Disability Service has opened a class about typing service learning for more students to understand the spirit of classroom typing, hoping to attract more students to join the typing service team.
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