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Advocacy Notes: Key Things for Classroom Teachers to Know
What are the key things that classroom teachers need to know in order to support my students? Question from the field: I have students whose IEPs call for staff inservice training prior to school starting or within the first couple of weeks. Some use hearing...
Advocacy Notes: Key Things for Classroom Teachers to Know
What are the key things that classroom teachers need to know in order to support my students? Question from the field: I have students whose IEPs call for staff inservice training prior to school starting or within the first couple of weeks. Some use hearing...
Advocacy Notes: My Supervisor Says I Can’t Advocate for My Students!
Hearing loss/deafness is a low incidence disability that requires specialists in the field to assess, plan and provide appropriate instructional programs. Yet, in some schools, the DHH specialist is told they cannot advocate for their students. This is primarily due...
Advocacy Notes: My Supervisor Says I Can’t Advocate for My Students!
Advocacy Notes: My Supervisor says I can’t advocate for my students! Hearing loss/deafness is a low incidence disability that requires specialists in the field to assess, plan and provide appropriate instructional programs. Yet, in some schools, the DHH...
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Advocacy Notes: Interpreting Service Options
Question from the field: We are a small school district and only offer an ASL interpreter for students with hearing loss, but more and more students are now using spoken language. Are there interpreting services or supports that we need to offer these students who do...
Advocacy Notes: Interpreting Service Options
Question from the field: We are a small school district and only offer an ASL interpreter for students with hearing loss, but more and more students are now using spoken language. Are there interpreting services or supports that we need to offer these students who do...
Advocacy Notes: No FM Provided
Question from the field: I have a student whose IEP calls for an FM system. However, the system is not in place, and we are more than half way through the school year. What can I do as the teacher of the deaf to help get this student their system? Why FM/DM...
Advocacy Notes: No FM Provided
Question from the field: I have a student whose IEP calls for an FM system. However, the system is not in place, and we are more than half way through the school year. What can I do as the teacher of the deaf to help get this student their system? Why FM/DM...
Advocacy Notes: Early Intervention
Question from the field: Can early intervention pay for audiology evaluations and hearing aids? Approximately 50% of young children served by early intervention programs are eligible due to communication development concerns. Are early intervention programs...
Advocacy Notes: Early Intervention
Question from the field: Can early intervention pay for audiology evaluations and hearing aids? Approximately 50% of young children served by early intervention programs are eligible due to communication development concerns. Are early intervention programs...
Advocacy Notes: Due Process
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...
