This curriculum assists students with hearing loss in succeeding at getting their needs met independently. Developing self-advocacy skills requires them to learn how to take action to meet this goal. Developing self-advocacy skills is likely to help strengthen students' academic learning, skills in daily living, their peer relationships, and their positive self-concept. The curriculum targets skills for Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School and High School. The Self-Advocacy Skills Assessment Tracker is key to progress monitoring. The curriculum contains all of the worksheet for easy printing.

This unique test focuses on the topics of evaluation, the effects of hearing loss on speech perception and auditory skill development, social and conversational competence, communication repair, self-concept development, self-advocacy and assessing access to the general education curriculum. Building Skills for Success in the Fast-Paced Classroom contains pertinent content along with a compilation of tools and materials that are indispensable to every teacher, audiologist and service provider that supports students with hearing loss in the schools. The resource materials that are included in each chapter are just one feature that distinguishes this text from others in deaf education. Resource materials are also targeted for teaching students and their parents.

Most children with hearing loss attend neighborhood schools as the only student with hearing aids. These devices are the lifeline to their education yet malfunction is not uncommon. It is only the student who, with training, will be able to recognize and report when an issue occurs and can deal with it in the most timely manner. Building Skills for Independence in the Mainstream provides IEP goals and step-by-step materials to provide students with the skills they need to be independent with their hearing aids and to advocate for their listening and communication needs in the classroom. A hierarchy of expected skills by grade with specific activities for each has been included. Geared for students in preschool through elementary, this book will benefit parents and teachers who work with these children. The role of the student, classroom teacher and the teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing has been defined for each goal. The book has engaging color pages and also includes 51 downloadable files for easy sharing with classroom teachers and to facilitate skill-building by students.Purchase from http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/buildingskills_independence

The purpose of this guide is to address the knowledge areas and skills impacted by hearing loss and to describe assessment procedures to identify the adverse educational effect of hearing loss in these areas. It is not the intent of this guide to include all assessment instruments that could be used to identify the areas of strengths and needs of students with hearing loss. It has been developed to provide a framework for school teams and professionals specializing in the education of students with hearing loss to use when assessing the unique needs of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. These assessments can be used as part of the evaluation process to determine eligibility, as tools for developing specific goals and objectives, or as a measure of pre- and post-instruction performance. Expected development in the expanded core knowledge and skills is also a significant consideration when determining the impact of the hearing loss on school performance and will therefore be integrated into the assessment process described.

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I'm so glad you came by. My name is Billie. I'm four years old and I am also Hard of Hearing. I have bilateral hearing loss due to Microtia. Microtia is a congenital condition of a little or missing outer ear. I wear my BAHA to be able to hear the world around me. I go to a school with all my other friends that are also Deaf or Hard of Hearing, but they don't all wear BAHAs to hear like me. Some of my friends wear behind the ear hearing aids or cochlear implants. I even have one friend that does not wear anything to hear, but we all have one thing in common....we are all SUPER HEARo's! My superpowers are kindness and acceptance. Together we will discover communication repair strategies, self-advocacy, and how to bring everyone's differences together!