by Karen | Dec 9, 2019 | Advocacy Notes
The special education pendulum has swung away from segregated settings where students with special needs minimally mixed with ‘regular’ students in the 1980s to the current full inclusion model, where direct 1:1 instructional services are becoming rare. Students with...
by Karen | Dec 6, 2019 | Goodies
The special education pendulum has swung away from segregated settings where students with special needs minimally mixed with ‘regular’ students in the 1980s to the current full inclusion model, where direct 1:1 instructional services are becoming rare. Students with...
by Karen | Dec 6, 2019 | For Professionals, Legal Issues in Serving Children with Hearing Loss, Online Access
Tailored Assessment for Students with Hearing Loss: Identifying Needs to Support Eligibility for Specialized Instruction A recent US court case1 made it clear that students with hearing loss must receive an eligibility assessment that identifies areas of suspected...
by Karen | Nov 26, 2019 | Advocacy Notes
If the family wants an ASL interpreter is the school required to provide one? Question from the field: We have two students who were raised by Deaf families in ASL environments. Both have moderate to severe hearing loss with access to speech via amplification. The...
by Karen | Nov 22, 2019 | Goodies
If the family wants an ASL interpreter is the school required to provide one? Question from the field: We have two students who were raised by Deaf families in ASL environments. Both have moderate to severe hearing loss with access to speech via amplification. The...