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Article: Providing Audiology Services to School Children More than Just Preferential Seating
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This informational article describes the need to define and understand a student's ability to access verbal instruction. It includes description of the SpeECH- Audibility Audiogram for Classroom Liste
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ning. 2011.
Issue - Eligibility Determination
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The information below has been derived from sections of the law and Office of Special Education Program comments. The guidance provided helPS- clarify the intent of IDEA and may be useful to professio
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nals and parents alike who are trying to advocate appropriate services and supports for children with hearing loss.
Auditory Language & Learning Guide (ALLG)
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The Auditory Language & Learning Guide is an EXCELLENT informal evaluation tool for listening and language that can be used with students of any age and language ability. The 2 page checklist format e
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asily allows the teacher to develop IEP goals based on identified student weaknesses in the 4 areas of audition/listening, receptive language, expressive language, and social communication. Skills can be rated as 'targeted', 'emerging', 'mastered' or 'previously assessed' and checked off by date achieved. This assessment tool can be used from year to year allowing instructors and parents to see growth in a students language and learning.
Article: Access is the Issue, Not Hearing Loss - New Policy Clarification Requires Schools to Ensure Effective Communication Access
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Information in this article is presented to assist the educational audiologist, teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing, or speECH--language pathologist in demonstrating the impact of hearing loss on acce
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ss to classroom communication so that the ADA question “Does this student have effective access to communication in school?” can be answered in an evidence-based manner. By Karen Anderson.
New Teacher Bundle
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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
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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)
Student Listening Challenges – Puzzle Piece
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Student Listening Challenges – Understanding the Missing Pieces summarizes the results of a Functional Listening Evaluation in a way that helps educators and family members understand listening challe
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lenges under the different conditions of near, far, in quiet and in noise. Includes an image of a story imposed on puzzle pieces with different parts of the text missing to correlate with decreased speech perception due to hearing loss and listening under different auditory challenges.
Million Dollar Settlement Highlights Need to Accommodate Students with Hearing Loss
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Information about a court case regarding placement of a deaf student in a self-contained classroom for students with significant disabilities instead of providing appropriate services to address needs
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caused by deafness.
Accessibility Considerations for Students with Hearing Loss
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Communication access is a key component of 504, IDEA and Title II of the ADA. Under Title II of the ADA, schools are required to ensure that communication access is as effective for children with hear
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ing loss as it is for their typically hearing peers through the provision of appropriate auxiliary aids and services. This handout provides examples of auxiliary aids and services that can make aurally delivered information available to students with hearing disabilities so that they can receive information from, and convey information to, others as effectively as students without disabilities.
Childhood Hearing Screening Guidelines - 2011 AAA
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Hearing screening guidelines were compiled in 2011 for the American Academy of Audiology. Guidelines are for students in preschool and K-2,3-5,6-8,9-12 and include specific recommendations for use of
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puretone, otoacoustic emissions, and tympanometry screening plus recommendations for follow up.
Alternate Reading Assessment for Students who are DHH +
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Current legal mandates call for all students to reach proficiency as measured through state reading assessments. While reading has long been an area of emphasis in DHH education, meeting this mandate
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is even more challenging when students with hearing loss have additional disabilities. This article summarizes results of an investigation of alternate reading assessments for students who are DHH+ and offers strategies for moving the needle toward improved assessment data.
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