Category: Organization
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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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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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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*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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Self-Advocacy – Part 4 – Communication Repair
10/10/16 Previous blogs discussed Equipment Management, Self-Knowledge, and Preferential Seating so today let’s look at Communication Repair (CR). Can you imagine how excited I was to see CR as part of the Common Core Standards Speaking and Listening Strand for Grades K-2? Kindergarten: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or […]
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Self-Advocacy – Part 3 Self-Knowledge
10/1/16 In the 5 specific areas of self-advocacy, past blogs looked at Preferential Seating and Equipment Management. Let’s consider Self-Knowledge. Why should we spend time working on this? At IEP meetings, I’ve been asked “Why should Susie be pulled out of the classroom to work on this?” My answer lies in social-emotional development – specifically […]
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Self-Advocacy: Preferential Seating
8/30/16 What does it mean? Acoustically, it means two things: √ Seated away from a source of noise such as computers, overhead projectors, noisy classroom pets, noisy students, pencil sharpener, etc. √ Seated near a speaker Visually, it means the student is sitting near and facing the teacher or whoever is speaking in order to be able […]
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Self-Advocacy: Equipment Management
8/15/16 When I think about what my students need to become successful in school and life, I have teased out the 5 categories of skills shown above. Let’s consider equipment management first. What is equipment management and why is it important? Whether a hearing loss is sensorineural or conductive, it means that the brain has […]
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