by Karen | Jun 5, 2021 | For Professionals, Hearing Loss – Identification, Impact and Next Steps
Hearing and listening are the cornerstones for learning for almost all children. If a child cannot clearly hear or attend to spoken information, speech and learning spoken language will likely be impacted. This means that hearing loss can cause learning challenges...
by Karen | Jun 5, 2021 | Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, For Professionals
I want to tell you that you greatly helped me last year. I had a child with a cochlear implant. I used many of the assessments provided on your website to complete with her and her mother. The assessments helped us determine sooo much! She is thriving this school...
by Karen | May 7, 2021 | Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, Early Childhood: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, For Professionals
Communication skills are at the heart of our concerns about the development of young children who are hard of hearing or deaf. We need easily administered, functional, and fun ways to assess children’s development and to plan needed intervention. Check out 5 ways we...
by Karen | Apr 12, 2021 | Assessment of Student Skills, Challenges, Needs, For Professionals, Planning to Meet Student Needs
Students with hearing loss have less access to communication. This will result in a slower pace of learning and fewer gains in academic knowledge unless appropriate services and supports are provided. At the end of the school year it is important to ask whether your...
by Karen | Mar 18, 2021 | For Professionals, Listening (Auditory Skills) Development, Planning to Meet Student Needs
Fatigue from Listening with Hearing Loss in School Individuals with hearing loss must put forth more “listening effort” and cognitive resources to attend to auditory information, which can be exhausting. The repeated need for extra listening effort in challenging...