If you have kids who are deaf and hard of hearing that need a boost building their CONFIDENCE and SELF-CONCEPT then this resource is a must-have! It helps children feel good about themselves and their ... hearing technology! The two games also target auditory memory, comprehension, descriptive vocabulary, questioning skills, grammar, and social skills.Colorful playing cards feature 16 children wearing hearing devices like hearing aids, cochlear implants, and bone-anchored hearing systems. It highlights vocabulary like unilateral, bilateral, behind-the-ear, in-the-ear, earmolds, processor, headpiece, magnet, coil, microphone, and more.  Talking and learning about hearing devices prepares kids with resilience and builds appropriate advocacy skills from an early age. These auditory learning games are FUN for the kids and are a SIMPLE one-time prep GRAB & GO activity for you.  INCLUDES:✧ H-EARS TO YOU - Game 1 Uses differential yes or no questions to listen and isolate a "hidden" game card of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. (Print version and a Digital version ready to screen share)✧ HEAR! HEAR! - Game 2 Players ask questions and listen to match pairs of children with hearing loss. (Print)✧ A guide with instructions and potential listening and language outcomes. ✧ Listening and spoken language (LSL) Tips◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS ➼ Questions? EMAIL ME before purchasing this resource or anytime later ➼ Earn TPT Credit towards your future purchases by leaving a review for this resource.  ➼ Follow me to be updated with newbies and freebies! ♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails ♥ Let’s Connect on   Instagram and  Facebook  Keep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way.  Thanks so much!  Lynn Wood

 A collection of comic strips revealing troublesome situations for teens with hearing loss. Includes commentary on how each humorous situation might be resolved.20 more situations and scenarios that m ... mix humor with compassion in negotiating social communication.More antics and advocacy for teens and tweens with hearing loss.

If you have students who are deaf and hard of hearing that need help with auditory working memory, executive functioning, and following directions, this Listening Finger Walk is a must-have! It builds ... lds vocabulary about types of hearing loss and hearing devices. It boosts confidence and helps children feel good about their own hearing technology. It's fun for the kids and a simple no-prep resource for you. Just open the PDF on your screen or print it and go!The colorful playing board features 16 children wearing hearing devices like hearing aids, cochlear implants, and bone-anchored hearing systems. You can target vocabulary like unilateral, bilateral, behind-the-ear, in-the-ear, earmolds, processor, headpiece, magnet, coil, microphone, and more.This Listening Finger Walk:➼ helps build listening skills and working memory by allowing kids to work with auditory information without losing track of what they're doing.➼ targets vocabulary, descriptive skills, spoken language, and communication skills.➼ has three rounds that each increase in auditory complexity.Includes:✧ A Hearing technology or devices theme for therapy sessions or school lessons✧ Listening and Spoken Language Tips✧ Print Version: Easy print and go!✧ Digital Version No Prep Ready to screen sharePlease Note: This activity and the Positive Self-Concept Auditory Learning Games contain similar images of the same children. The resources both target self-advocacy but have different auditory and language-based goals. You will want both resources you will want in your Summer Toolbox.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? EMAIL ME before purchasing this resource or anytime later♥ ♥ ♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails♥ Let’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your excellent work. I am blessed to help along the way.Thanks so much!Lynn Wood

This product contains 15 self-advocacy scenarios for geared to help deaf and hard-of-hearing students. There are both "ideal" listening situations and "difficult" listening situations included in orde ... r to help students develop self-advocacy and problem solving skills.Read each scenario and ask your student to determine if is an "ideal" listening situation or a "difficult" listening situation. If it is a difficult situation, what can be done to fix it?This product is best used with students who are in upper elementary grades and up. It contains both school-based and community-based scenarios.

This interactive Google Slides activity asks students to evaluate 4 listening situations (presented in pictures and short descriptions) and rate them on a scale according to listening difficulty. Afte ... r rating the situations, students are tasked with providing an explanation of why each situation is difficult or easy to hear. This would be a great 'stepping off' activity to begin a unit on coping skills or to evaluate how a student perceives different situations and why/how he/she feels about his/her listening abilities.There is very little digital learning activities available for remote learning today. This tool that asks students to rate situations that are difficult or easy to hear encourages introspection about a student's hearing loss. Asking student to explain why the situation is easy or hard to hear encourages them to evaluate their own listening skills and how advocacy can improve even the most difficult situation.Learning Objective:The student will be able to compare listening situations by rating them on a scale from easy to hear to hear. The student will be able to describe why a specific listening situation is difficult or easy to hear, giving support for their answers.

Skyler has a hearing loss. And he doesn’t feel much like talking today. No wonder—he keeps missing what his parents and siblings have to say, and it’s frustrating. Skyler’s little sister, Maizy, tags ... y, tags along on his morning routine and, with the help of her special friend, we learn that it takes more than hearing aids to help Skyler feel like talking again.This 35-page full color children’s book by Audiologist Jim Bombicino provides avenues for discussion and building vocabulary by highlighting the difficulties that students may face each day, including mishearing and misunderstanding information, the effect of background noise, and consequential frustration and confusion that can happen when the ease of daily communication is taken for granted by typically hearing persons.  In this case, the story follows a young boy as he awakens and prepares for a typical school day.This video version includes audio of the text read by actors, while their voices are filtered to imitate how Skyler hears through his hearing aids! Listening situations include a speaker with added background noise, simultaneous speakers, a speaker talking too quickly, and mishearing words—all heard as they come through Skyler’s hearing devices.  Perfect for helping teachers, families, and classmates understand what a hearing loss might be like.  Finally put typically hearing adults and children in the shoes of the child with hearing loss!Video download can be accessed on any device. Please respect the copyright and creativity of the author and avoid sharing as freeware.For grades 3-6

The New Teacher resource is an invaluable bundle packed with information you can use to explain the impact of hearing loss to your student's teachers and parents. 30 pages of resources.  The New Teach ... acher Combo includes:1. Impact of Hearing Loss on Listening, Learning, and Social Interactions (5 pages)2. Emailable, computer fillable SIFTERs (Preschool, Elementary, Secondary) (6 pages)3. Emailable, computer fillable LIFE-R Teacher Appraisal (2 pages)4. Emailable, computer fillable Access to Curriculum Inventory (ATCI) for General Education Teacher (3 pages)5. Children with Hearing Loss Miss More Than You Think (1 page)6. Listening Comprehension Exercise – Mother’s Aprons (1 page)7. Barriers to Listening – Visual analogies of listening in noise, reverberation, and distance (5 pages)8. Student Listening Challenges – Understanding the Missing Pieces (1 page)9. Attitude is Caught, Not Taught (teacher version) (1 page)10. Hearing Aid/Cochlear Implant Monitoring and the Law (1 page)11. Hearing Aid Monitoring – An Important Daily Activity (4 pages)12. Emailable Tips for Teachers (Early Childhood + K-12) Word version (15 pages)

NOTE: Powerpoint Presentation for viewing on PCA collection of comic strips revealing troublesome situations for teens with hearing loss. Includes commentary on how each humorous situation might be re ... resolved.20 more situations and scenarios that mix humor with compassion in negotiating social communication.More antics and advocacy for teens and tweens with hearing loss.

This no-prep activity is ideal to use at the end of the school year with your deaf or hard-of-hearing students. Use this resource as an opportunity to reflect on the school year, your student's growth ... and needs, and your own growth and needs as a teacher as well. Having an open dialogue with your student using these guiding questions will help you to understand how you can further support them as a Teacher of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing.This resource contains a reflection pages students to complete, a reflection page for teachers to complete, and a supports page for both to complete together.

This product contained 20 statements in flashcard form focusing on self-advocacy skills.  You can use this as a fun end of the year activity or even as an assessment to gauge your student's understand ... ding of self-advocacy skills. This would also be an excellent way to reinforce/support the difficult concept of "true or false" with your students.Read each statement to the student. Ask them to decide if the statement is "true" or "false."