Making Sense of Sensory Changes
4. What Did You Say?
Project Skill
- experiencing hearing loss
Life Skill
- relating to others
Materials needed
- cotton or disposable ear plugs
- radio
- television
What to do
You can experience what it is like to have a hearing loss by placing cotton in your ears or disposable ear plugs. Turn up the radio loud; then turn the television on with the volume at normal range. Try to determine what is being said on the television. Discuss your feelings as a group or with your project helper. Was it difficult to concetrate on the television program?
Did you hear all or only part of the program?
Was it frustrating to listen to the program with all that background
noise?
How does this activity help you to relate to older people in real-life
situations?
When you are finished thinking about these questions, go on to the next
activity.