Self-advocacy is a hot topic for children with hearing loss. For all children with disabilities, it is important to teach self-advocacy skills, but for the child with hearing loss, it is even more crucial. This is because hearing loss is an access issue, rather than a learning issue. Throughout life,…
Let’s Do Lunch: A Challenging Time for the Child with Hearing Loss
Most students look forward to the break that comes with the ring of the bell for lunch. This is a time when there are no academic challenges and students have the opportunity to relax and socialize with their peers. However, for the student with hearing loss, lunchtime in the cafeteria…
The School Learning Environment–Asking the Right Questions When Deciding on Accommodations, Modifications, and Services
Education is not what it used to be. Children are not taught in the same way that we were as kids. If you were a fly on the wall in a classroom, today, you would likely not see the teacher standing up in front of the room lecturing. You would…
The Art of Faking It: An Attempt to Blend In for the Child with Hearing Loss
Today, I taught one of my students one of the most important lessons that I could have taught her. Typically, we think of the key parts of listening and spoken language therapy to be auditory discrimination tasks, vocabulary lessons, grammar lessons, and speech sound practice, to mention just a few.…
New Year’s Goals and Resolutions: Is it Time to Reexamine Current Goals?
It’s the beginning of a new year, the time when we all set new goals and resolutions for ourselves. It is this time of year when people resolve to exercise more, eat healthier, get more sleep, organize, read more, or travel more regularly. The new year gives everyone a new…