Can Kids with Hearing Loss in Private or Charter Schools Receive DHH Support Services? I recently had a call from a parent of a kindergarten student with hearing aids who was told by her private school that 1) the parent must pay for the FM/DM system and 2) that the...

10 Low-Tech Ideas for Virtual Instruction Using technology with deaf and hard of hearing students has proven to be a learning experience for all of us.  Many of them do not have reliable internet connections, others prefer to use their parent’s phone to access virtual...

ACCESS….Check!   Online education has been a struggle for many students. Those with hearing loss have additional issues when accessing virtual education. The CAVE Checklist or Communication Access in Virtual Education has been increasingly in use by DHH...

Strength in Numbers Being alone is hard!  We often hear the term “Critical Mass” and its value wi th studends who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), not only when budgeting for services, but to help students recognize that they are not alone. Similarly,...

Improved Family Connections via Tele-Intervention Can face-to-face intervention services for young children be replaced with tele-intervention? YES. Can remote services result in language development outcomes as good or BETTER than face to face services. YES! There...

The Power of the Read-Aloud The ability to read empowers success! Readers come from readers – those children whose parents themselves read and made a habit of reading daily to their child/children, have a higher interest in reading. Better reading ability leads...

Accommodations – Lifeline to Equal Access Classroom hearing assistance technology, interpreting services and captioning are often viewed as expensive within tight school district budgets and special accommodations are often seen as a hassle. Yet without these...

Tailored Identification of Access & Educational Needs   Despite the challenges of the COVID pandemic, schools remain responsible for offering an equal educational opportunity to students with hearing loss. To do so we must identify and address access issues...

Focusing on Vocabulary Building Vocabulary building strategies are some of the most important tools an educator can have in her teaching toolbox, and teaching students to break apart words (morphology) is one of those strategies no teacher should be without. ...