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Article: A Review of Unilateral Hearing Loss and Academic Performance
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Systematic review of approaches to habilitation and management of unilateral hearing loss. A finding was that unilateral hearing loss can be detrimental to the academic success of children.
Key Points for Administrators and School Staff
$ 195
This resource discusses key point for administrators and school staff regarding the educational needs of students with hearing loss in regard to the realities of hearing device use and what educators
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can do, including extra knowledge and skills, daily classroom needs, and social interaction issues. Separate handouts for teachers of students in early elementary and those in upper elementary and secondary grades. The information also includes evidence-based decision-making for access accommodations for students with hearing loss which focuses on the requirements of Title II of the ADA and the school's responsibility to identify appropriate communication access accommodations for every situation encountered in school. Worksheet to be used for team discussion of access needs is included.
Tech Talk -Shop and Mechanics Class
$ 150
Accommodations and considerations for students who are taking vocational classes with machinery. Discusses communication strategies, hearing technology and hearing protection.
Age 4-6 - Metacognitive Awareness - Building Self-Confidence & Resilience
$ 6
For ages 4-6 years: This information addresses students recognizing that they have a hearing loss, understanding feelings, learning expected class listening behaviors, remembering what was heard via s
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ubvocalization skills, responding to teasing, making friends. 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.
Audio clip: Missing many high pitch sounds
$ 150
Simulation from original 1960s record: high pitch hearing loss.
Auditory Language & Learning Guide (ALLG)
$ 10
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
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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.
Impact of Hearing Loss on Listening Comprehension Examples
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Teacher inservice handout to use to help make sense of Functional Listening Evaluation (FLE) results. Represents instructions in written form overlaid on puzzle pieces. DHH specialist would black out
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word endings and phonemes to represent reduction in speech perception based on percent response on FLE.
Ling Sounds & Formant Spectrum
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Charts showing the speECH- frequencies of each of the Ling sounds as they fit into the 1st - 4th formants. It also has a chart that shows the the speECH- frequencies of each Ling sound, 125 Hz - 6000
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Hz.
Article: Permanent Damage from Longstanding Hearing Loss Due to Middle Ear Infection
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Article summary: Sound deprivation in adult mice causes irreversible damage to the inner ear. The findings suggest that chronic conductive hearing loss, such as that caused by recurrent ear infections
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, leads to permanent hearing impairment if it remains untreated.
Emailable Tips for Teachers: Students with Hearing Loss - Specific Early Childhood Tips
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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
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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.
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