by Karen | May 7, 2021 | Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, Early Childhood: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, For Professionals
Communication skills are at the heart of our concerns about the development of young children who are hard of hearing or deaf. We need easily administered, functional, and fun ways to assess children’s development and to plan needed intervention. Check out some of the...
by Karen | Apr 26, 2021 | Accommodations for Students with Hearing Loss, For Professionals
Our overall goal is to ensure that students with hearing loss have the same access to instruction as their peers – this includes educational media. Professionals and family members of students who are early learners through high school and have a disability are...
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...
