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
...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.
Spanish Translation - Handout with information on possible impact on understanding language, speECH-, social, and need for educational accommodations and services. Handouts for 9 hearing loss degrees/
...type.
Students will often say that they are 'just fine' when asked about their hearing needs. Information for students and teachers to monitor effective self-advocacy strategies.
Information for parents and educators about the impact of hearing loss on a child's level of energy. Extra focus required to listen in a classroom with a hearing loss often results in higher levels of
... fatigue and the need to take listening breaks. Includes tiPS- for dealing with fatigue.
This article describes the results of a study of 87 children with hearing loss that were evaluated over a 3-year period. Results suggest that children will reach a level of over 90% sentence recogniti
...on in the auditory/visual condition when their language becomes equivalent to that of a normally-hearing 7-year-old. They will enter school at age 12 with an average language delay of 4-5 years unless they receive concentrated and effective language training. 2001
Information handout on the importance of self-esteem to school success, PS-ychosocial development, and strategies to help feelings of fitting in to the mainstream classroom.
This handout shows 3 popular analogies showing the impact of understanding written sentences in the presence of reverberation and noise and presents speECH- understanding in terms of puzzle pieces. C
...an also be used as teaching tools to increase student understanding of reverberation and noise effects.
Handout designed to support discussion by school teams regarding the role of the teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing, educational audiologist, speECH- language pathologist, special educator, and sign
...language interpreter in providing support and services to students with hearing loss. Includes possible issues that need to be considered specific to hearing loss.
Today's classrooms are more active and often more noisy than ever before. This article revisits the topic of classroom acoustics, both for push-in and pull-out settings for students who are DHH using
...recent data from the Center on Literacy and Deafness (CLAD).
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