LING2821 allows students to acquire advanced communication skills for use when dealing with patients with hearing loss by using a Team Approach coupled with immersion-type language acquisition techniques, demonstrations and projects to enable them to better communicate using Sign Language. LING2821 sensitises students to the existence of a Deaf subculture and its differences from hearing culture by exposing students to Deaf culture and Deaf perspectives on life, which affect patient care. Cultural knowledge coupled with sign language competence should lead to proper communication with deaf and Deaf patients. LING2821 equips students who have achieved basic competence in a Caribbean sign language to communicate with the Deaf with near-native competency with an emphasis on the context provided by medical and dental procedures.
- Tutor: Dewdney Scott