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”
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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.
Dominican Republic 2011: Part I
After a whole lot of airport delays, I’m back from the Dominican Republic and excited to share with you all that I experienced about hearing loss in the developing world.
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.
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!
EHDI 2011: Sunday
In this post: Using information technology to improve Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs. 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”
Spice Up Your IEPs with SALSAS
Writing goals for a child’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP) can be stressful. This document, which is legally binding, spells out the child’s goals for the year. While it can be changed and altered as needed, the process of doing so can be time-consuming and difficult. How can you make sure you’ve written a comprehensive, appropriateContinue reading “Spice Up Your IEPs with SALSAS”
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 