Helping Students with Hearing Loss Learn Language and Self-Advocacy to Help Themselves
self-advocacy
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 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 MoreTomorrow (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.
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Read More8/30/16 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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