Resources, Continuing Education and Consulting Services
In Childhood Hearing Loss, Educational Support, Specialized Knowledge to Meet Child Needs
Mission
To improve the futures of children with hearing loss.
This is a ‘go-to’ site for professionals and family members seeking to identify and address listening, social communication and learning issues of children with hearing loss of all ages.
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YOUR INPUT NEEDED ON AN IMPORTANT SURVEY! – Familes and Audiologists PLEASE Help!
Jane Madell, another longtime pediatric audiologist, and I have embarked on the Pediatric Hearing Aid Use Project. We are asking families and audiologists to complete surveys that will provide information on information and strategies used by families to encourage full-time amplification wear. We will also be comparing the hearing aid retention devices available. Our ultimate goal is to produce guidance materials for audiologists and families that provides strategies that will help children with usable hearing to develop full-time hearing device wear habits. Please forward the links to the letters for families and pediatric or educational audiologists you know. We will be collecting survey data into June. THANK YOU!
Direct links to surveys: Family survey – https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MPXZMF3 Audiologist survey – https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MPLXDBK
Karen’s Korner:
For those of you who have been patiently awaiting the electronic version of the Listening Inventory For Education – Revised, it will be posted on this site by mid-June. Stay tuned! We welcome your feedback!
A recent speaking opportunity emphasized to me how important the basics are, in this case speech perception and access to verbal instruction in the classroom. A new page has been added this month: Speech Perception & Estimating Access to Verbal Instruction based on the comments and requests I’ve encountered. I was also excited to ‘put on my early intervention hat’ again and do day-long presentations on unilateral and mild hearing loss It is always fun to facilitate a group’s experience of “mild” hearing loss for the first time. The tried and true ‘Unfair Spelling Test’ that has been used for about 40 years makes a real impression. Hearing loss is invisible, but experiencing the challenge of listening, even with minimal or mild hearing loss, can make an impression for a lifetime. The May Update provides more information.
There are now almost 500 copies of Building Skills for Success in the Fast-Paced Classroom in the hands of excited professionals! I hear that a number of school districts will be using the book as the focus of their Professional Learning Collaborative meetings next year. Way to go!
“We absolutely love your book. Out of all our resources, yours has quickly gone to the top of “must haves”. You should be getting some orders from a few of our school districts as I shared the resource with our schools that have large numbers of children with hearing loss.” A South Dakota Director of DHH ServicesWatch us grow! Your suggestions for additions or improvements are very welcome!
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