by Karen | Mar 4, 2018 | Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, For Professionals, Legal Plans
Hearing loss is a barrier that limits access to ongoing communication in the environment. For students who are hard of hearing this means that they do not perceive 90% or more of speech, especially if it occurs beyond the 3-6 foot range. Decreased speech perception...
by Karen | Feb 19, 2018 | For Professionals, Online Access, Planning to Meet Student Needs
Schools and teachers have recently been held accountable for the progress made by each and every student. Many state departments of education and districts have defined the accommodations that can be provided to students with special needs so that fair access, but no...
by Karen | Feb 6, 2018 | For Professionals, Language and Speech Development Issues, Listening (Auditory Skills) Development
Providing communication access to students often includes auxiliary aids and services, like hearing aids, FM/DM hearing assistance technology, and/or sign language interpreters. Yet we cannot assume that students are using these accommodations as well as they need to...
by Karen | Jan 22, 2018 | For Parents, For Professionals, Language and Speech Development Issues, School-Aged Children with Hearing Loss
Reading is foundational to school success. It takes approximately 20,000 hours of listening to speech before a child’s brain has clear mental referents for each of the speech sounds1. This ability is necessary to enjoy rhyming and to develop phonological...
by Karen | Jan 8, 2018 | Goodies
On SALE Now through January 15,2024! The NEW Teacher Bundle The new Impact of Hearing Loss on Listening, Learning, and Social Interactions included in the New Teacher Bundle provides a visual example of how various levels of hearing loss fragments speech and describes...
