Category: Deaf and Hard of Hearing
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Day 1 Tips
August 23, 2017 Well, I’ve had very full first days back to work this school year. I have new students and new schools in Grades 3-10. Since the beginning of the year is a huge organizational process for an itinerant teacher, I thought I would create something to help out myself and others. Here are […]
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This product has 6 different uses for an SLP/TOD!
6/28/17 I’m heading to the AG Bell Symposium in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and I can’t wait. If you are going, please come by my table in the exhibit hall and check out LASH. I like products to have multiple uses and boy does LASH ever! All of the hard products on the table will be […]
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Communication Repair
May 25, 2017 Do your kids with hearing loss say “Huh?” when they miss information? Are you looking for some fun activities to help them learn to use other responses? I finally finished Unit 4 for the Interactive Self-advocacy Notebook on Communication Repair available in my TeachersPayTeachers Store. Here is a preview of some […]
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FM Lapel Mics
5/6/17 Recently one of my students complained that he didn’t like using his FM system because of the “scratchy” sounds. I listened to it and did not hear any scratching. Then he explained that the mic flips over when the teachers are wearing it. I asked “What should you do when that happens?” and he […]
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Check out Unit 3 – Amplification!
April 2, 2017 The latest unit in the Interactive Self-Advocacy Notebook is available here. I hope you find it useful! It includes a Rationale – have you ever been asked at an IEP meeting why a student should be pulled out of class to learn this information? Here you go! What is included in […]
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Progress Monitoring
3/19/17 I have a question for anyone who works with deaf/hard of hearing students with self-advocacy goals on their IEPs. Our state recently required that all IEP goals be progress monitored 7-10 times per quarter. This is easy to do with many types of goals but not so easy for self-advocacy goals. For goals related to wearing and […]
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Unit 2-Anatomy of the Ear- Interactive Self-Advocacy Notebook
2/11/17 Have you ever had anyone ask you “Why do you need to remove that student (with a hearing loss) from classroom instructional time to work on learning about the ear?” This is a very common question and the answer is the very basis of self-knowledge. I’ve had students tell me they feel stupid […]
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Self-Advocacy Interactive Notebook for Kids with Hearing Loss
1/22/17 What is an Interactive Notebook? As a teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing, I had little exposure to Interactive Notebooks until I noticed them in the regular ed classrooms that I’m frequently in. There they are used across many subjects. Why? For my purposes I see two important reasons. First, they are brain-based learning […]
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ASHA 2016
12/4/16 I know that I’m a little late in posting about ASHA. (Has anyone seen my energy lately? I seemed to have misplaced it about a year ago.) Anyhow, I want to share an incredible find in the Exhibit Hall. I think this is an exciting tool for Early Intervention Programs to help parents […]
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*Apps now available on new platform*
10/30/16 I am so excited to share that my apps are now available in the Chrome Store. Over the past several years, I have had innumerable requests for Rule the School apps to be used on devices other than Apple products. Because of the widespread adoption of Chromebooks by school districts, I have had many […]
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