Improving the Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss

Our mission  is to help YOU to improve the futures of children who are hard of hearing or deaf via Resources, Products, Continuing Education and 1:1 Consultation 

This is a ‘go-to’ site for professionals and family members seeking more information about the learning and social issues of children with hearing loss and what you can do to better support the future success of these children. Resources are at no cost, designed to be easy to understand quickly, and practical to use. Products and webcasts are of high value at a minimum price.          

Join our list to receive monthly updates of new resources.      May Update                                               Now 1790 subscribers!   The last update this school year has been posted. Next one in August. Happy Summer Break!

“I adore your site!!!  It is exactly what we “Lone Rangers” out here working in isolation, and needing to be all things to all people, need to guide and support us.  It gives us a more objective and uniform way to document and support the wide ranging needs of our birth to 21 students. THANK YOU!!” Teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing, Florida

 

“I want to thank you for providing these phenomenal webcasts and for all the resources and materials compiled in your book, Success for Kids with Hearing Loss. You have helped inspire and motivate me, and have made a positive impact on my professional growth as a hearing itinerant. Looking forward to some of your other webcasts.”    Hearing Itinerant

 

“Your book, The Deaf Bible as I refer to it, has changed the way our DHH program supports our students and advocates for their learning. Our DHH teachers have been using your checklists to gather detailed information from the students and teachers. The information has improved the quality of our present level information and goals in the IEP as they are now very specific to how the hearing loss impacts a child’s access to language in the classroom.”     DHH Teacher

Karen’s Korner: 

We will be recording new webcasts over the summer. How about one by you?

You will receive $100 for developing the PPT presentation and recording the webcast PLUS proceeds from every viewing. Click here for more information on submitting an idea. Great, PRACTICAL ideas are needed!

 

Looking for a good book for your professional learning collaborative?

I highly recommend Promoting Social Competence  as a good text to review in depth with your colleagues.  It assists professionals in learning how to design and implement activity-based social skill development. Social skills, social communication and activities to address are described.

Check out the new pages!

• Ideas for Assessing Benefit of Interact-AS
• More info on Self-Concept: Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers

New Product:  Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test

Quick and easy for age 4 and up provides a comparison to typically developing age peers on the ability to discriminate word pairs (same/different task). A useful glimpse into the invisible challenges that students with hearing loss will face in the day-to-day communication in the classroom. Valuable information when presented with the results of the Functional Listening Evaluation sending a powerful message that classroom teachers can readily understand.

Literacy Boosters

The Oliver books are free downloads from Phonak – print out and send home this gift of summer reading for your young students. Then use those books and the Boss and Sophie book next fall to build vocabulary and comprehension skills via the Literacy Booster CDs!  See the Literacy Booster page for the link to the Oliver books to download.

Planning for next year? Discuss providing an Interact-AS trial period in the fall. 

The Interact-AS speech-to-text translation software is an inexpensive accommodation that may be appropriate for many students with hearing loss who struggle to keep up in the classroom. The speech-to-text translation software is about 90% accurate. Best candidates: middle and high school students who are good listeners and speechreaders who have the ability/maturity to ‘glance and get’ text when a word or concept has been missed.  It may also be a good solution for the student who is the only one using sign language in the classroom/school to be able to utilize the speech generation function to support communication in the classroom.  The Computer Requirements & Set-up page clarifies the ‘h0w to’ questions that many of you have been asking.   I would be happy to speak with you about your student and your situation (email or phone 850-363-9909)

Karen L. Anderson, PhD, Director

Watch us grow! Your suggestions for additions or improvements are very welcome! Tell us what resources you need to better support the future success of children with hearing loss (info@successforkidswithhearingloss.com).  

Resources developed and presented by Karen L. Anderson, PhD.  All material on this website is copyrighted. Permission is required to use this information in other websites or publications. Please feel free to share or use this information with individual families and to improve the futures of the children with hearing loss that you serve and love! 

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