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4 Considerations for Smooth (t)Transition
Transitioning from Age 3 to School Age When a child transitions out of Early Intervention at the age of three and prepares to enter a preschool setting, their needs, goals and...
22nd Nov 2022
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5 Ways to Support Deaf or Hard of Hearing...
A child who is deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) often has challenges understanding in situations that are not their typical, day-to-day communication. A simple trip to the beach...
23rd May 2022
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School-Aged Children with Hearing Loss
How to Plan and Provide for a Child with Special Needs Select any of the questions below to be directed to resources that will help you to understand this issue Effect on...
02nd Jun 2019
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Learning Progress Equal to Peers?
Students with hearing loss have less access to communication. This will result in a slower pace of learning and fewer gains in academic knowledge unless appropriate services and...
22nd Apr 2019
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We Want Him to be “Normal”…
“We don’t want to call attention to his hearing loss. We want him to be “normal.” Students with hearing devices are typically educated in their neighborhood schools and...
08th Apr 2019
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Self-Advocacy Skill Development is...
The ‘bread and butter’ of itinerant support to students with hearing loss is often considered to be ensuring communication access, supporting language development, and...
07th Dec 2018
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Inclusion – Factors that Make it or...
Every parent and teacher want children with hearing loss to be successful in the classroom, both academically and socially. There are benefits to including students with...
15th Nov 2018
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Keys To Improving Reading Skills
Reading is foundational to school success. It takes approximately 20,000 hours of listening to speech before a child’s brain has clear mental referents for each of the...
22nd Jan 2018
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Pace of Learning & Keeping Up in the...
As you are probably aware, education has changed with teacher lecture becoming less prominent as an educational practice. Typically, new information is presented in a lecture...
07th Nov 2017
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Is the Inclusion Model Good for Students...
Download this article as a PDF Special education students are first and foremost general education students. Many, if not most, school districts in the US are actively...
01st Oct 2017
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Speech Perception, the listening bubble,...
For most classroom communication students who are hard of hearing must work harder to listen, thus having fewer resources needed to process what was said so that it can be...
18th Sep 2017
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Getting Ready to Read
Hearing loss causes a smaller listening bubble and reduces the amount of incidental language learning that a child will hear. It is said that about 80% of vocabulary is learned...
02nd Jun 2017
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