Brief informational article. Even mild hearing loss can have an impact on a child's ability to learn, but many parents balk at the idea of hearing aids.
The GOAL is for a
student to become an effective listener/observer, a successful communicator, a
proficient reader and a knowledgeable consumer of goods and services! Steps to
Success – A Scope and
...nd Sequence of Skills for Students who are Deaf /Hard of
Hearing: Perception, Processing, Self-Knowledge and Advocacy Development, now
in electronic form.This tried and true advocacy curriculum includes
basic, intermediate and advanced goals, teaching strategies, vocabulary, pre
and post assessments and language development activities. NEW is the addition of
updated answer keys and author notes for companion fill-in worksheets,
available separately (ID#1306) or as a bundle with this curriculum (ID# 1307).Goal areas include:1. Understanding the science of hearing2. Using technology3. Developing language processing skills4. Self knowledge5. Social
interaction and language6. Practicing self-management7.
Understanding rights and access 8. Accommodations and advocacy
The Auditory Language & Learning Guide is an EXCELLENT informal evaluation tool for listening and language that can be used with students of any age and language ability. The 2 page checklist format e
...asily allows the teacher to develop IEP goals based on identified student weaknesses in the 4 areas of audition/listening, receptive language, expressive language, and social communication. Skills can be rated as 'targeted', 'emerging', 'mastered' or 'previously assessed' and checked off by date achieved. This assessment tool can be used from year to year allowing instructors and parents to see growth in a students language and learning.
This checklist is designed to be a pretest/post-test when a Classroom Amplification Distribution System (CADS or soundfield amplification) is used in a classroom in which large group instruction is pr
...esented. It can be used with a selected subgroup of students, or all students can be asked to complete the checklist. Each student rates his/her general responsiveness during instruction on a 1-5 rating scale. Includes room for minimal comments. Results will be most valid for students in grade 4 or ages 9-10 and above.
This resource contains 15 possible listening situations for DHH learners. Read each scenario and have your student decide if this is an "ideal" listening situation or a "difficult" listening situation
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Informational handout that includes results of research on pragmatic language development for young children with hearing loss and intervention strategeis.
A significant proportion of students with hearing loss refuse to use hearing technology necessary for their educational access, often because they feel as though they do not fit in to their peer group
.... The purpose of this book is to raise awareness for the reasons why hearing device rejection happens and specific instruction to occur at different ages to build student resilience and self-‐confidence, thereby increasing the likelihood that they will not reject using their hearing technology. Specific teaching activities and recommendations for instructional materials to develop identified skills have been included in this Guide.
The NOVEMBER Listening and Language By The Month resource includes seven activities that can be used ALL MONTH for auditory memory and comprehension, seasonal vocabulary, developing grammar, and build
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