The ADAPTED SEAM uses student-friendly language that activates self-reflective skills, encourages student ownership, and provides an interactive/conversation starter when done with the student. Some s ... tudents experience an "ah-ha moment" about their responsibility the first time they complete the chart. Ways To Use This:Discussion tool while completing the data form with your student. Self-reflection tool for older students while providing data for you.Assessment tool for determining self-advocacy present levels. (sample write-up included)Baseline data for your measurable IEP goal. (sample goal included)Students To Use This With?A student who is missing many of these skills at their levelsA student who is NEW to hearing devices regardless of age. An older student needing frequent reminders of these skills can benefit from revisiting the form periodically to track their progress.Why Use this?Editable PDF or Printable (2 versions)Timely benchmarks for progress reportingEasily Attach/Upload to IEP SystemsSample Assessment/Present Level Write-Up provided Sample IEP Goal & Completed Student Example providedWhat's Included in this Adapted SEAM Product?Overview of All Adapted Levels At a Glance (1 page) Directions and Ways To UseEditable PDFs - compact, single-page view. (7 forms/levels: Pre-K, K, 1st-2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, MS/HS)Printable Forms - expanded onto 2 sides for reading and writing ease. (7 forms/levels: Pre-K, K, 1st-2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, MS/HS)Student Data Example Sample Assessment/Present Levels Write-UpSample IEP goalSample - Real Student Form Completed over an IEP year.

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 resource contains 15 possible listening situations for DHH learners. Read each scenario and have your student decide if this is an "ideal" listening situation or a "difficult" listening situation ...

Why Use This?2025 - It's updated to include hearing aids with domesIEP goal sample includedIEP goal progress monitoring is done quickly!Students and parents can see progress visually on the rubricQuic ... kly identify what needs more practiceUse this with two social stories related to cleaning your hearing aidsSocial Story - When Your Nose Runs: ENTs, Earmolds, and Earwax.Step-by-step presentation How to Clean Your Hearing Aids with Real Student Photos

The LMH 10 Sound Test is a quick and easy way for caregivers and teachers to know what a child can hear when using their hearing technology (hearing aids, cochlear implants, assistive listening device ... s) while at home and in the classroom. These LMH 10 Sound cards are best when used with a Learning to Listen Kit with toys that match the pictures listed. For more information on the LMH 10 Sound Test: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearing-and-kids/2021/the-lmh-test-for-monitoring-listening/

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."

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

 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

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)