by Karen | Dec 7, 2018 | For Parents, For Professionals, Planning to Meet Student Needs, School-Aged Children with Hearing Loss, Self-Advocacy Skills for Students with Hearing Loss
The ‘bread and butter’ of itinerant support to students with hearing loss is often considered to be ensuring communication access, supporting language development, and self-advocacy skills training. While access relates to ADA requirements, and supporting language is...
by Karen | Nov 15, 2018 | For Parents, For Professionals, Planning to Meet Student Needs, School-Aged Children with Hearing Loss
Every parent and teacher want children with hearing loss to be successful in the classroom, both academically and socially. There are benefits to including students with disabilities in their neighborhood schools and having them be fully included in mainstream...
by Karen | Nov 4, 2018 | For Parents, Self-Concept: How the Child with Hearing Loss Sees Himself, Social Issues and Your Child
Peer Victimization and Hearing Loss More than ¼ of school-aged children experience bullying or peer-victimization. The risk of this negative treatment increases for children who have lower social competence, presence of special needs, or overall seem “different” from...
by Karen | Oct 15, 2018 | Accommodations for Students with Hearing Loss, For Professionals
Described and Captioned Media Program The Described and Captioned Media Program’s mission to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. DCMP is funded by the...
by Karen | Oct 11, 2018 | Goodies
I am often asked, if I had to choose, which would be the most important assessments for teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing to routinely use during initial or triennial assessments. Assessments that reflect unique needs of our students Assessments to tease out...
