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[Show the Words: Living with Hearing Impairment] (7) a Friend's Anxiety: Imagining in Class, Towards a Relationship of Mutual Support - Edited by Koichi Omine, Teacher at Okinawa School for the Deaf | Show the Words: Living with Hearing Impairment

"Today, let's all try wearing hearing aids. I'll ask you later how you felt," says Koichi Omine, a teacher at Okinawa Prefectural School for the Deaf (Kitanakagusuku Village), who has been giving outreach lessons throughout the prefecture. When a child with hearing impairment is attending a local elementary school, he visits their classmates and explains the workings of the ear. Many of them don't know how to wear hearing aids.
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"Today, let's all try wearing hearing aids. I'll ask you later how you felt," says Koichi Omine, a teacher at Okinawa Prefectural School for the Deaf (Kitanakagusuku Village), who has been giving outreach lessons throughout the prefecture. When a child with hearing impairment is attending a local elementary school, he visits their classmates and explains the workings of the ear. Many of them don't know how to wear hearing aids.

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沖縄タイムス+プラス broke the news on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
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