by Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss | Mar 15, 2019 | Goodies
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...
by Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss | 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 Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss | 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...
by Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss | Feb 5, 2019 | Goodies
Question from the field: “I have several students with hearing loss who are high functioning, fully mainstreamed, and get good grades. My administrators feel like the students can be dismissed from the IEP process, but I know there are still areas of need for me to...
by Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss | Jan 18, 2019 | Goodies
Author: Melinda Gillinger, Advocacy Consultant 2 questions from the field – same answer: “My child was just diagnosed with hearing loss. How and where do I even start the process of getting services with our school district?” “ Our child was attending a...
by Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss | Jan 7, 2019 | Goodies
Who should be the “DHH expert” on the student’s team? Melinda Gillinger, Advocacy Consultant Our question from the field: “We recently had a student move into our district. She has bilateral cochlear implants and uses spoken language to communicate. Her...
