The Impact of Hearing Loss on Listening, Learning, and Social Interactions handouts are to be used to inservice school staff, increase understanding of families, and as a tool for student learning reg
...arding the impact of hearing loss on speech perception and school needs. The handouts are appropriate to children and youth with primarily flat configuration hearing loss ranging from 26dB - 75dB. Different ranges of hearing are addressed in the 4 handouts to reflect unaided hearing ability or aided hearing thresholds. Estimates of specific speech sounds and audibility for quiet, conversational, and teacher speech are provided. Includes inservice resources with visual analogies for background noise, reverberation, and comprehension challenges.
Simulation from original 1960s record: Unfair Spelling Test (also called the Unfair Hearing Test). This list of 10 words is repeated 3 times with filters representing different degrees of hearing loss
.... The answers are: 1. Fill, 2. Catch, 3. Thumb, 4. Heap, 5. Wise, 6. Wedge, 7. Fish, 8. Shows, 9. Bed, 10. Juice.
Communication access is a key component of 504, IDEA and Title II of the ADA. Under Title II of the ADA, schools are required to ensure that communication access is as effective for children with hear
...ing loss as it is for their typically hearing peers through the provision of appropriate auxiliary aids and services. This handout provides a forum for team discussion of the need for auxiliary aids and services for different school situations so students can receive information from, and convey information to, others as effectively as students without disabilities.
TiPS- to email to preschool and kindergarten teachers to improve understanding of the needs of the student with hearing loss. Getting one tip at a time has been an effective strategy for implementatio
...n. Focusing on one strategy each week reduces anxiety and results in an improvement in best practice tECH-niques for their students with hearing loss. These early childhood tiPS- should be used in conjunction with the school-age tiPS-, also available through Teacher Tools Takeout.
SpeECH- sounds occur across frequency ranges and are usually not restricted to one audiometric frequency. An audiogram shows the spread of frequency range for consonants. This page also includes a lis
...t of consonants, their presence at each frequency and relative loudness.
TiPS- to email to Grade 1-8 teachers to improve understanding of the needs of the student with hearing loss. Getting one tip at a time has been an effective strategy for implementation. Focusing on
...one strategy each week reduces anxiety and results in an improvement in best practice tECH-niques for their students with hearing loss. Early childhood tiPS- are also available through Teacher Tools Takeout.
This handout is a summary of hearing aid monitoring for classroom teachers. It answers the why, when, and how of hearing aid listening checks. Pair with a handout describing performing the Ling Sound
...check P01TEA0472
Tips for Teachers consists of 10 videos, each only about 2 minutes in length, by educational audiologist Jim Bombicino. You can email links to share one tip at a time with one or more teachers. A grea
...t way to remind classroom teachers of our students' auditory access needs! Choose which tips to send, or send one a week to kick off the school year. Tips topics include: facing the student, small group work, using the HAT system, moving around, etc. Incorporates simulations of challenges listening in a classroom with hearing devices. Comes with handouts about listening in background noise, 2 general inservice handouts, and emailable tips for teachers. The purchase price allows 50 downloads of each
video. Once you have purchased the series and selected email addresses
that will receive the links, you can view the videos on your device for a
limited time.Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/RNBZ71c1XtQ
Spanish Translation - Handout with information on possible impact on understanding language, speECH-, social, and need for educational accommodations and services. Handouts for 9 hearing loss degrees/
...type.
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