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Tomorrow (11/26/18) and Tuesday Rule the School will be participating in TeachersPayTeachers sitewide sale. Everything in the store will be 20% off. At checkout, don’t forget to apply TPT’s Promo code from the top of the page for an additional 5% off. Here are some helpful hints on saving money on TPT.
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I’m Thankful for You!
I am grateful for all of my fellow professionals who are helping students with hearing loss be as successful as they can be. Whether you work with deaf/hard of hearing students as a teacher of the deaf, speech-language pathologist, audiologist, psychologist or special education teacher, you know that our professions may not be financially rewarding […]
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Follow-up to post “From the Beginning (or not)”
April 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 […]
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Ten Year Anniversary
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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The Dot by Peter Reynolds
9/5/16 Have you read this great book with any of your students? Many years ago I observed that some of my students had very negative self-talk. Last week a teacher of one of my 4th graders told me the student said to him “I am the dumbest kid in the 4th grade”. This breaks my […]
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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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Why Spend Time Working on Self-Advocacy Skills? (Part 1)
8/9/16 This is a question that I get frequently. Teachers, parents and administrators ask “Why should a child be pulled out of class to work on these skills? Let’s talk! When this knowledge is taught AND used effectively, a student will take charge of his/her hearing loss and school situations. Why should professionals who teach […]
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