Your IFSP/IEP Tool Kit

The process of preparing an Individual Family Service Plan (ages birth to three) or an Individualized Education Plan (ages three to twenty-one), can be a nerve-wracking process for even the most resilient parent of a child with hearing loss.  These meetings can be stressful, emotional, painful, confrontational… and good.  While there are many factors thatContinue reading “Your IFSP/IEP Tool Kit”

Advanced Reading Comprehension

If your child has mastered foundational listening and spoken language skills and is good at early reading comprehension, it’s time to take the task away from parent/teacher/therapist-read stories and to give the child tools for independent reading and comprehension of more complex written information.

Dominican Republic 2011: Part II

On day two at the school, I started by learning some great new songs that I can’t wait to bring back and modify for English speakers!  Then, I observed a reading lesson.  It was very clear to me how much the teachers cared for their students, but it was equally clear that there are manyContinue reading “Dominican Republic 2011: Part II”

Dominican Republic 2011: Part III

The poverty of the Dominican Republic struck me in various ways during various parts of the trip, as I described above, but when it really hit home for me was when I was changing my money as I prepared to leave at the airport.

10 Quick and Easy Things You Can Do Today to Help Your Child Learn to Listen and Talk

Having a child with hearing loss can be overwhelming at times.  Between the therapy appointments, new jargon to learn, and keeping those hearing aids/cochlear implants on, it’s easy to drown in the routine of each day.  In the early stages, it often seems like an impossible dream that your child will one day learn toContinue reading “10 Quick and Easy Things You Can Do Today to Help Your Child Learn to Listen and Talk”