Morag Clark

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Morag Clark , MBE (born 1929 in Glasgow , Scotland ; † April 9, 2019 in Hereford ), was a British educator and pioneer of naturally hearing-directed language acquisition .

Life

Morag Clark studied physics, chemistry and mathematics and graduated with a Ph.D. from. In 1957 she became a teacher at the Birkdale School for Hearing Impaired Children , a school for hearing impaired children in Southport , Northern England. From 1976 to 1986 she was the head of the school.

Since her retirement in 1986 she has not only conducted workshops in the United Kingdom and courses for hearing impaired educators at Brooks University in Oxford, but has also supervised projects in Turkey, Japan, Singapore, Ecuador, Germany, India, Mauritius- Rodrigues , Hungary, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Zambia. Among other things, she implemented a program at Anadolu University in central Turkey. In 1989 she went to Ecuador to train deaf professionals. In 1998 she played a key role in setting up the Foundation for Children with a Hearing Loss in South Africa , which was founded in 1992, and in setting up an integrated kindergarten.

Clark died on April 9, 2019 at Broomy Hill Nursing Home in Hereford.

plant

Morag Clark was especially with the Natural Hörgerichtet-According linguistic approach ( Natural Auditory Oral Education, Natural Communicative Approach, Interactonist Auditory Oral approach known). This approach is based on decades of consulting, practical research and experience from more than fourteen countries on five continents.

The approach is that deaf children can acquire and develop fluent and clearly understandable language when their residual hearing is fully nurtured in an interactive learning environment. Aural impressions recognized as significant in everyday and game situations are picked up and used for an almost natural language acquisition. For learning to speak through listening in interactive situations, the learning environment must be carefully selected and parents should be natural with their child. They must be given comprehensive advice and motivated so that they can continue the early intervention work of the educators in everyday life.

This hearing training or hearing-directed early intervention should begin as early as infancy. At this age, the child can acquire normal colloquial language more easily, paying special attention to rhythm and speech melody. For the method to be successful, pediatric audiological tests are required to ensure the effectiveness of the hearing aids.

Morag Clark has in her books the case histories of her own worldwide practical experience and shows professionals how to adapt their current approach of early intervention in the lives of families with deaf children to the latest developments in audiology, technology, medical science and psycholinguistics.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Introduction: For which population is an auditory approach suitable? The Volta Review: Vol. 88, N. 5, 1986.
  • Language through living: For hearing impaired children , 1989:
  • An Overview of Educational Provision for Hearing-Impaired Children from 1950 to Present Day . Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc 1997
  • The promotion, upbringing and education of hearing-impaired children and young people. Position paper of the BDH In: HÖRPÄD 1/1999
  • On the death of Armin Löwe . Spectrum hearing 1/2002
  • How hearing impaired children learn to speak . Spectrum hearing 3/2002
  • A Practical Guide to Quality Interaction With Children Who have a Hearing Loss . Plural Publishing Inc. San Diego 2006, ISBN 978-1-59756-112-9
  • Interaction with hearing impaired children. The Natural Hearing Approach in Practice . Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, Munich Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-497-02063-8

literature

  • Gisela Batliner, Anja Kutrowatz: Encounters with Morag Clark . Hear Spectrum 1/1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birkdale Reunion Association: History of the School ( Memento November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Aured, Mumbai: Teacher Training 2013
  3. ↑ Lighthouse School, Singpore: Teacher Training 2011 ( Memento from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ British Association of Teachers of the Deaf: Association Magazine May 2009
  5. ↑ Morag Clark helped educate the deaf in South Africa
  6. ↑ Death Notices & Obituaries on herefordtimes.com, accessed April 18, 2019
  7. ↑ Tributes paid to globetrotting teacher of the deaf and pioneer of her field on herefordtimes.com, accessed December 19, 2019
  8. ↑ A Practical Guide to Quality Interaction with Children Who Have a Hearing Loss: Review by James W. Hall III, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Morag
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Deaf Educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2019
Place of death Hereford