by Karen | Mar 20, 2020 | For Professionals, Self-Advocacy Skills for Students with Hearing Loss
What is self-determination? Self-determination is a person’s ability to take actions toward self-chosen goals. It is about making things happen in your life. The components of self-determination include: – choice making – decision making – problem...
by Karen | Feb 11, 2020 | For Professionals, Language and Speech Development Issues, Progressive Plans
Students with hearing loss, whether hard of hearing or deaf, are at high risk for deficits in syntax due to their imperfect perception of the English language. Word endings, tense, and other grammatical features are often lost when these ‘bits and pieces’ are not...
by Karen | Jan 10, 2020 | Goodies
Progress in Light of Circumstances – A Right for Every Student I don’t think my child is making progress in reading… Our question from the field: At a recent IEP meeting it seemed as though my child who has both hearing loss and other learning issues hasn’t made any...
by Karen | Jan 10, 2020 | For Professionals, Self-Advocacy Skills for Students with Hearing Loss
Too often we hear, “He has good grades, so he won’t qualify for special education.” It is true that there must be a relationship between a child’s disability and school performance to qualify for services, however, IDEA specifies educational performance, not grades....
by Karen | Dec 6, 2019 | Goodies
The special education pendulum has swung away from segregated settings where students with special needs minimally mixed with ‘regular’ students in the 1980s to the current full inclusion model, where direct 1:1 instructional services are becoming rare. Students with...