Helping Students with Hearing Loss Learn Language and Self-Advocacy to Help Themselves
Do you go to your student’s classroom to get him/her and walk back to your room and then walk the student back to his/her classroom? This can be valuable time for assessing, bonding, and learning! Picture having a conversation with the student in a noisy hall. Walking side by side naturally minimizes the visual cues […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
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 More9/5/16 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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