Education : Computer programming courses for hearing-impaired

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Hi friends

I'm thinking of starting a business for people with hearing-impairment/loss where they can learn computer programming and become software developers.

They can do it just for hobby or develop something alone or may be they can start to apply for jobs in SW companies. I don't really think having hearing loss is a real obstacle particularly in software development.

But I can not really verify if my thoughts are valid and is it worth to start working on it.

Because I'll need to learn sign language as a first step and there will be many more challenges. By the way , i'm a software engineer with 11 years of experience.

My motivation
1) Being hearing-impaired is not an obstacle for being a good coder. And it can also have advantages like having better concentration on task you are performing
2)In SW development most of the communication is done over mail , chat or etc.. So I don't understand why there are no software developers with hearing loss in SW companies
3)I think its also good for individuals and for society to have more people with hearing loss that can make some money or being more productive

4) please add if there are other reasons you think that might be important

What do you think of my arguments ? Do you think they are valid and worth to start a business ?

Thank you
 
:lol: I think NTID might have you beat by a few years!
 
Bottesini said:
:lol: I think NTID might have you beat by a few years!
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Thanks Bottesini for your feedback.

Sorry I did not give enough details.
I was referring to "online education" where you don't need physically participation.


NTID seemed to well established educational institute that takes place with many aspects of education.

Or Am I wrong ?
 
Frisky Feline said:
because youare not deaf.
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Hi Frisky

Yes you are right. I have no idea about being deaf and i can not image it. That's why I'm asking these questions - most of them might be stupid questions-

For these reasons I need a little bit of help because I don't want to start something useless.
 
you could.. but I'll put my few pennies in...

I am deaf- I've been a QA Tester for over 10 years (currently looking though :( ). Would love to get into programming as a job but that ain't happening lol.

As for online courses...I took a number of online courses about ten years ago- it was all based on emails, group chat (the last few classes were done through Moodle). So the fact that I am deaf never figured into my taking the class (the guy who taught those classes has also had at least one totally blind guy in his classes)

Now if you were to take it a step further and add on video tutorials or some kind of video chat- then yes you'd need to know sign language in order to communicate.

I really would like to take better structured classes but they all cost money- money that I don't have. So it's the free ones I mess with but half the time they are either too easy, not well structured (the FutureLearn course I did was not great...)... most are self paced without any kind of live chat (the comments section on each lessons gets mind-boggling after a while lol).
 
I could ask my friend who's just finished university and is a programmer... I know he had interpreters.
 
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