Description
A Game to Increase Understanding of Communication Breakdown
Achieving true independence and self-advocacy is a journey for students with hearing loss.

Simple, Fast, Powerful – and Inexpensive!
Note: In purchasing the downloadable version of this game you are agreeing to abide by the terms of a limited use license, meaning it is only for use by you with your caseload. It is not legal to share downloaded files for others to use.
- Start with teaching how to predict when challenges may occur, even if the student has not been aware that he has been missing information.
- Build a knowledge base of ways to anticipate, control or respond to challenging situations.
- Respond to emerging challenges in the classroom or socially by supporting student learning in why there is a problem and how he or she could respond.
- Use the situation and strategy cards in various ways (Concentration, Go Fish) for targeted learning in a few minutes of fun.
- Take advantage of the situations/strategies to discuss how it makes the student feel when situations happen and how his classmates view him as a communicator (passive? assertive?) and potential communication partner.
- As situations and strategies are matched, take the opportunity to role-play and practice appropriate language to use to request clarification or respond to challenges.
- The content of What’s the Problem? complements the Rule the School  and Monkey Talk self-advocacy games in building knowledge about self-advocacy in a fun way!
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