The Heidelberg University of Education is one of only six educational institutions in Germany to offer a special education degree specialising in hearing and communication. The specialisation is aimed at anyone who wants to professionally support and encourage children and young people with hearing impairments. The opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing people have improved significantly thanks to modern hearing technology and the recognition of German Sign Language (DGS), but targeted support in educational processes is still essential. During your studies, you will acquire skills in German Sign Language (DGS), learn about technical aids and deal with the psychological aspects of hearing impairment. If you want to break down communication barriers and help shape inclusive education, this specialisation offers the right framework.
Are you interested in studying special education with a focus on hearing and communication at the Heidelberg University of Education? Perhaps you would like to have credits from your previous degree programme recognised? If so, you can find out more and find suitable contacts on our study counselling pages.
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The Pedagogical Audiology and Sign Language Centre (APAG) is the didactic workshop for the Hearing and Communication specialisation. Here, students can consolidate what they have learnt in theory in small groups under the guidance of tutors and combine it with practice (e.g. audiometry with virtual patients, testing and checking hearing technology, using sign language).
Where: Old building of the University of Education in room 225a and audiometry room -106
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Among other things, the Learning and Behaviour Support Unit advises on the development of support diagnostic concepts in the areas of reading, writing, arithmetic and behaviour and supports the implementation of didactic and methodological variants of individualised German and mathematics lessons.
In addition to targeted support for pupils with learning difficulties in maths and German, the working group also offers special support services for children with behavioural problems. These include both individual and small group support programmes, which are based on the principles of application, development and competence orientation and are carried out by students as part of their teacher training.
In addition, the working group has extensive diagnostic material for learning and behavioural support, which can be borrowed by students and tested in practice as part of the LWI offer.
Where: Old building of the University of Education in room 307.
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The Specialised Library for Education of the Blind and Visually Impaired (SOB) at Heidelberg University of Education contains more than 6,400 titles of specialist literature for the blind and visually impaired from the fields of didactics, education, psychology, diagnostics and medicine.
The library is located at Zeppelinstraße 1 in Heidelberg.
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The former Lernwerkstatt Sonderpädagogik LWS (rooms 303, 304, 306, 308) at the Institute of Special Education and the former Grundschulpädagogische Arbeitsstätte GPA (room 112) at the Institute of Educational Science became the Lernwerkstatt Inklusion LWI. With this merger, the LWI is part of the network of didactic workshops at the PH Heidelberg. It combines the areas of university didactics, school practice and research. With the addition of the Montessori collection (room 301), the LWI's range of loanable materials and collections extends in part to rooms 301, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308, 218a, 225a in the old building.
The other special education facilities form subject-specific interfaces to the LWI. These special education rooms are primarily used for (therapy) sessions and counselling sessions for special education subjects. Room 112 in the old building of the former GPA primary school education centre has become the 'Green Room', the School and Teaching Research Centre at the Institute of Educational Science.
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The language learning workshop is a facility of the special educational focus on language and communication. It has learning materials for language and written language support that can be borrowed by students for use in lessons or for extracurricular learning support. In addition, diagnostic materials and extensive specialised literature are available for teaching/learning purposes.
Where: Old building room 218b.
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