by Karen | Mar 15, 2019 | Early Childhood: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, For Parents, For Professionals, Infants and Toddlers with Hearing Loss
Who are our babies with hearing loss? Fewer than 15% of the babies identified by Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs have bilateral profound hearing loss (deaf) and more than 50% have mild bilateral or unilateral hearing loss. The distribution of...
by Karen | Mar 5, 2019 | Advocacy Notes
Question from the field: We keep going around and around in the IEP process, not agreeing. What are our options? We have had 4 amendment meetings since our daughter’s last IEP meeting. We are not in agreement, and at every meeting we seem to be going in circles. We...
by Karen | Mar 4, 2019 | Goodies
Question from the field: We keep going around and around in the IEP process, not agreeing. What are our options? We have had 4 amendment meetings since our daughter’s last IEP meeting. We are not in agreement, and at every meeting we seem to be going in circles. We...
by Karen | Mar 4, 2019 | Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, For Professionals, Progressive Plans
A recent US court case1 made it clear that students with hearing loss must receive an eligibility assessment that identifies areas of suspected need secondary to hearing loss must be evaluated with sufficient intensity to satisfy in depth evaluation. The special...
by Karen | Feb 18, 2019 | Goodies
Question from the field: My child’s IEP team shared that he is “a good reader,” but I know that he is not understanding what he reads. He struggles with vocabulary and comprehension, but because he is getting good grades and reads the words, I am having trouble...