Helping Students with Hearing Loss Learn Language and Self-Advocacy to Help Themselves
4/25/20 Are you a: Special educator SLP Teacher of English Language Learners Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students? Is your school district is using EL Education as their ELA curriculum? Do your students need additional support in phonological awareness? This resource is for you! It is based on one of the trade books […]
Read MoreI created a bundle for my TeachersPayTeachers Store of all 4 Book Boosters! AND Monday, Nov. 25th is the #DeafEdMustHaveSale so it will be 20% off. AND I also put 2 of the books available on my website on sale Nov. 25th for 20% off as well! What is a Book Booster you may ask? […]
Read MoreAt a recent staff meeting of itinerant teachers of deaf/hard of hearing students, we had a work session on learning to plot a language sample on the CASLLS. One of my fellow itinerant teachers came up with a brilliant time-saving idea. She used Office 365 Word to transcribe her language sample. With her sample open […]
Read MoreDo you have the app Word Wheel? It is simply a roulette wheel on which you can enter an infinite number of word lists. This past week I thought of a new list. I have a student who is new to receiving H.I. services and is embarrassed by her hearing aids and DM/FM system. She […]
Read More11/1/18 I recently wrote about a course that I created for the The Online Itinerant about how we can use materials from the classroom curriculum to work on IEP goals. This week a great article was published in ASHA Leader Live describing how one speech-language pathologist does this and lists some great resources that I want […]
Read More10/24/18 Last summer when I was discussing creating an online class with Stefanie Kessen, founder of The Online Itinerant, I shared with her that I was daunted by the technical aspects. Stefanie said “I’ll handle that part!” so I said “Sign me up!” I loved planning the content but I have to admit it took […]
Read More9/19/18 Recently, I added a new product to my TeachersPayTeachers Store called Sentence Combining. What is Sentence Combining? An exercise for students who use a majority of simple and compound sentences to further develop their complex sentence structure. It is an appropriate strategy for SLPs, Teachers Of Deaf /Hard of Hearing Students, English as Second Language Teachers […]
Read MoreApril 6, 2018 Earlier this year I posted about a new referral that I received, a kindergartner who had not been amplified before January, 2018. I explained the testing that would be done. I want to pick up there and broadly describe strengths and weaknesses and what interventions the IEP team agreed on. Overall the […]
Read MoreJanuary 6, 2018 How is eligibility for special education services for students with hearing loss determined for school-aged children? I currently have a kindergartner for whom we signed the referral and permission to test paperwork just before Christmas break. I would like to share what information I gather, how I interpret it and what the IEP […]
Read More1/1/18 By the time December of this school year came around, I decided I needed some new materials to liven things up. In June, 2017 I attended the AG Bell Listening and Spoken Language Symposium where I heard Rehab Audiologist Lynn Wood give an excellent presentation on her favorite games. So I dug up that […]
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11/4/17 Did you know that the cochlear implant companies have free materials on their websites? Let’s look at the wealth of materials offered by Med-el. In addition to their online activities, sets of materials are periodically posted that can be downloaded, printed, adapted and used in articulation, language and auditory skill development. The latest lesson […]
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