This was created with a student for students, staff, and families of children who wear hearing aids. Cleaning hearing aids regularly means checking the hearing aids weekly. Cleaning as often as week ... ly for some children and for some specific times of the year.

This checklist is designed to be part of biannual discussions and monitoring between early intervention professionals and family members of infants and toddlers with hearing loss. Family members are a ... sked to consider the different areas that can affect the rate that communication skills develop and how often their child receives attention to each of these considerations. Areas covered are: Auditory Communication, Visual Communication, and Effective Communication Strategies.

This product contained 20 statements in flashcard form focusing on self-advocacy skills.  You can use this as a fun end of the year activity or even as an assessment to gauge your student's understand ... ding of self-advocacy skills. This would also be an excellent way to reinforce/support the difficult concept of "true or false" with your students.Read each statement to the student. Ask them to decide if the statement is "true" or "false."

If you have students who are deaf and hard of hearing that need help with auditory working memory, executive functioning, and following directions, this Listening Finger Walk is a must-have! It builds ... lds vocabulary about types of hearing loss and hearing devices. It boosts confidence and helps children feel good about their own hearing technology. It's fun for the kids and a simple no-prep resource for you. Just open the PDF on your screen or print it and go!The colorful playing board features 16 children wearing hearing devices like hearing aids, cochlear implants, and bone-anchored hearing systems. You can target vocabulary like unilateral, bilateral, behind-the-ear, in-the-ear, earmolds, processor, headpiece, magnet, coil, microphone, and more.This Listening Finger Walk:➼ helps build listening skills and working memory by allowing kids to work with auditory information without losing track of what they're doing.➼ targets vocabulary, descriptive skills, spoken language, and communication skills.➼ has three rounds that each increase in auditory complexity.Includes:✧ A Hearing technology or devices theme for therapy sessions or school lessons✧ Listening and Spoken Language Tips✧ Print Version: Easy print and go!✧ Digital Version No Prep Ready to screen sharePlease Note: This activity and the Positive Self-Concept Auditory Learning Games contain similar images of the same children. The resources both target self-advocacy but have different auditory and language-based goals. You will want both resources you will want in your Summer Toolbox.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? EMAIL ME before purchasing this resource or anytime later♥ ♥ ♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails♥ Let’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your excellent work. I am blessed to help along the way.Thanks so much!Lynn Wood

It is so important for our students who are deaf/hard-of-hearing to have an understanding of their IEP plans. My students who were the strongest advocates always knew what their accommodations were!Th ... is is a 2-page resource that you can use to review basic information on a student's IEP. You can review the student's IEP together and then fill out the form. You can also encourage your student to have a copy of this form with them in case they need to reference it or a show a teacher.The form includes spaces for basic IEP and case manager information, hearing loss information, equipment information, placement details, and goals.Have a great start to the school year!

Teaching self-advocacy is SO IMPORTANT for our young learners who are deaf/hard-of-hearing. Over the years, I have found that even though we can teach the skills, we must also focus on teaching the la ... nguage that is needed to complete the skills.This product contains 15 NEW difficult listening scenarios/communication repair scenarios and possible responses geared toward younger students. Each page contains a simple scenario, and then provides two possible responses for the student to choose from. Some of the responses also offer you the opportunity to use scaffolding, depending on the needs and abilities of your students.These scenarios also work well for students who have lower language abilities!Your students will have fun role-playing these scenarios with you while learning appropriate and effective ways to seek out assistance that they may need in an educational setting.

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 ...

Additional Comprehension ActivitiesReading Comprehension QuestionsLists of tier 1 + 2 related vocabGame board to make it fun or help that wiggly off-task child stay focusedNew Concept for Older Kids: ... What are “endonyms”This is a story to help children/students who wear hearing aids understand why they may go to the doctor and/or ENT more often than others. The story can be read for comprehension. It teaches new vocabulary and creates a wonderful language opportunity for students to better advocate for themselves at school, home, and the doctor/ENT office. This story was written with younger children and their families and older students who continue to come to school with blocked hearing aids and do not use an interpreter for language access.Service Activity for EI-ECSE Families & Home VisitsFor any family, this story can be an important conversation starter, or reminder, to understand the language impact of even partially clogged hearing aids for their kid(s) who are not using signs. This can be demonstrated to parents by using a listening tube when their child’s hearing aid is plugged in and cleaned, and then having them listen again to the difference in clarity of language coming through the hearing aid to their child’s brain.Story Printable OptionPrint each two-page spread in landscape mode OR - Print a two-page spread but cut apart pages to show 1 page at a time. Spiral bind, 3-hole punch, or staple.Interactive Digital OptionPresent the book on a device or overhead projector. To play the digital version of the game, click on the digital spinner link. Change the spinner to “3” numbers. Pick & move game pieces (pink, green, blue)QuestionsUse professional judgment when deciding on which comprehension questions to ask the student. *The advanced questions are marked with an * following the number.VocabularyTier 1 vocabulary Tier 2 vocabulary prefix Endonyms short nonfiction passage Endonym Activity Options ask students to research endonyms related to sick words show sick examples and ask them to find more

The Listening Hierarchy Speech Discrimination Tool, adapted from David Sindrey, is a step-by-step guide for tracking a child’s auditory skill development. It helps educators and therapists show parent ... nts measurable progress in listening and speech discrimination, from simple sound contrasts to more advanced distinctions. This tool makes it easy to set goals, document growth, and celebrate communication success.