Informational article for families and school personnel unfamiliar with the impacts of hearing loss on effort, attention, and learning. This introduction assists in understanding the need for assessme
...nt, support, and accommodations when a student has hearing loss.
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
...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.
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.
Teachers who have not had experience with students who are hard of hearing are usually unused to wearing a microphone transmitter and often ask, "Do I really Need a Microphone?" This brief information
...al article describes how hearing technologies are essential tools for learning.
This fact sheet summarizes the competencies for Transition Specialists beyond those of novice special educators. Specifies basic foundations, characteristics of learners, assessment, instructional con
...tent, planning, managing behavior, etc.
BUNDLE - Worksheets for primary level instruction on advocating during communication breakdowns. These worksheets guide the student to analyze the communication breakdown and choose an appropriate wa
...y to repair the breakdown. Bundle IDs 0497-0500, 0524-0525.
This handout lists appropriate behaviors indicating typical development of social-emotional well-being age ranges in months along with recommended actions that a parent or caregiver can take to encour
...age healthy social-emotional development at each age range. From Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning.
20 Real-Life Scenarios portray common situations encountered by school-aged children who are deaf and hard of hearing. They are derived from true stories I have heard from children over the
...years. The scenarios are of real photos that elicit language and engagement.Discussion prompts are included with each scenario and include guidance for the therapist, teacher or parent to incorporate when leading the discussions. The scenarios foster problem solving and brainstorming for possible solutions for each difficult communication situation.When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade - While the theme is lemons the scenarios are common listening situations where problems may occur due to the setting, the listener or the person talking.A scaffolding strategy, I find successful when introducing self-advocacy begins with an experiential language activity of making homemade lemonade. This rich experience sets a foundation for an ongoing series of lessons on self-advocacy and the premise of this resource. Children in my practice learn early, they are the boss of their hearing loss. Sometimes life hands them sour lemons but they can choose to turn those lemons into sweet lemonade.Digital - No PrintInteractive PDF with clickable buttons to navigate between pages.Teletherapy and as no print in face-to-face lessons/sessions.Read more on the HearSayLW blog. Any questions? I'm a great listener.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? Feel free to email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later. ➼ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn NewsletterLet’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much! Lynn
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