by Karen | Apr 12, 2021 | Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, For Professionals, Planning to Meet Student Needs
Students with hearing loss have less access to communication. This will result in a slower pace of learning and fewer gains in academic knowledge unless appropriate services and supports are provided. At the end of the school year it is important to ask whether your...
by Karen | Mar 18, 2021 | For Professionals, Listening (Auditory Skills) Development, Planning to Meet Student Needs
Fatigue from Listening with Hearing Loss in School Individuals with hearing loss must put forth more “listening effort” and cognitive resources to attend to auditory information, which can be exhausting. The repeated need for extra listening effort in challenging...
by Karen | Mar 4, 2021 | For Professionals, Planning to Meet Student Needs
Research2,3 indicates that healthy executive function skills do not require hearing. Age-appropriate language proficiency, whether in sign or speech, is crucial for the development of healthy executive function skills. The greater the language delay the greater the...
by Karen | Feb 19, 2021 | For Professionals, Online Access
I recently had a call from a parent of a kindergarten student with hearing aids who was told by her private school that 1) the parent must pay for the FM/DM system and 2) that the child could not receive any special support for her learning needs due to the impact of...
by Karen | Feb 4, 2021 | E-Learning, For Professionals
Using technology with deaf and hard of hearing students has proven to be a learning experience for all of us. Many of them do not have reliable internet connections, others prefer to use their parent’s phone to access virtual sessions, and others did not have adult...