Having a hearing loss should not prevent a person from participating in sports and activities with his or her hearing peers. Here are a few tips and tricks to help make your or your child’s athletic experience fun!
Tag Archives: Children
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.
Early Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is the ability to understand written text and use that information in meaningful ways. It’s a skill that can be difficult for many children, including those with hearing loss, but it is an important one to master.
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”
EHDI 2011: Tuesday
In this article: The “Medical Home,” social media and web resources, and listening and spoken language. Read on!
EHDI 2011: Monday
In this post: EHDI’s 10 year history, parent grief, outcomes for children who are deaf-blind with CIs, teleintervention, and more. Read on!
Grammatical Morphemes: Precious, Fleeting, and Oh-So-Important
Morphemes are the smallest units of speech capable of conveying meaning. Words like “dog” and “bark” are “free” morphemes, because they stand alone and have meaning. Grammatical morphemes are tiny markers that can be added to these words to add to or change their meaning. They are “bound” morphemes because they don’t work on theirContinue reading “Grammatical Morphemes: Precious, Fleeting, and Oh-So-Important”
Difficult Listening Situations
The first steps to listening well are: a well-programmed hearing aid or Baha and/or well-MAPped cochlear implant(s) therapy (auditory training, aural (re)habilitation, Auditory-Verbal Therapy) from a qualified profressional practice, practice, practice
Troubleshooting Tough Times
What do you do when the going gets tough? Well, there’s not one perfect answer for every CI user or every situation, but here are a few suggestions to keep in mind during difficult times:
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 