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- Amplification
- Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs
- Early Childhood: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
- Hearing Loss – Identification, Impact and Next Steps
- IDEA Law Summary Information
- Language and Speech Development Issues
- Legal Issues in Serving Children with Hearing Loss
- Listening (Auditory Skills) Development
- Planning to Meet Student Needs
- Self-Advocacy Skills for Students with Hearing Loss
- Self-Concept: How the Child with Hearing Loss Sees Himself
- Social Skills
- Speech Perception & Learning
Related Teacher Tools Takeout Items
If you have a student with hearing loss in your classroom
BUNDLE – ATCI – Acess to Curriculum Inventory Checklists
IEP Checklist (DHH)
Observational Record of Behavior of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Students
Back to School Checklist for Itinerant Teachers – fillable
Self-Advocacy Strategies – Back to School!
Relationship of Hearing Loss to Listening and Learning – All Hearing Loss Handouts
Embracing the New School Year A Fresh Start for All
When teachers of the deaf and HH, educational audiologists and speech and language pathologists, receive their new caseload, it can be overwhelming trying to set up a schedule that will accommodate the needs of all of those involved. Trying not to pull students at the same time as other sessions are scheduled, trying to avoid scheduling student sessions during classroom instruction, and trying to avoid pulling students out of enrichment classes, can be a task that seems impossible. Creating a schedule only to have to redo it for what seems like the 100th time, can be a daunting task that leads to discouragement, right out of the gates. Here are a few tips to help you start the year off right and provide optimism for a seamless transition.
- Begin the year with a checklist of “to do’s” that will help organize all of your information. (Teacher Tool Takeout Item-Back to School Checklist)
- Create an email, letter or short video for general education teachers who have the student with hearing loss, introducing yourself, explaining the student’s hearing loss, IEP or 504 accommodations, Hearing Assistive Technology, and times that the student will be pulled for a session. If you have a student with hearing loss in your classroom
- Talk to the general education teachers and explain the implications of the student’s hearing loss, on academics, social skills, and emotional skills. Relationship of Hearing Loss to Listening and Learning
- Make sure the HAT system is charged and working BEFORE the first day of school.
- Email links for the student’s HAT system, that demonstrate how to use the system and how to troubleshoot if the device isn’t working properly.
If you are a Teacher Tools Takeout Subscriber, pick a couple of Kool Kidz Vidz to show to your student and discuss similarities/differences between them and the students in the videos. If possible, get students with similar technology together on a Zoom call to go over care and operation of HAT and ways to handle teacher issues and student reactions. The MOST POWERFUL support for continued hearing device use comes from facilitated discussion with peers who also have hearing devices.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
~ Nelson Mandela
