Are you making therapy happen? Can your sessions be heard in the next state because you’re speaking so loudly? Are you EX-AAAAAA-GER-RAAAAAA-TING the WORDS so LOUDly and unNATuraLY that even a person with typical hearing would have trouble deciphering your message? Do you leave the session sweating because of the song-and-dance routine you’ve just performed?
Tag Archives: Professionals
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:
Books for Shared Reading: Choosing Them, Changing Them
Sharing books with your child is one of the best activities you can choose for growing pre-literacy, speech, language, listening, and social skills. By carefully choosing books, and changing them to fit your needs, you can enhance the language and listening opportunities and help have a more successful interaction with your child or student(s).
Don’t Be Too Good of a Listener
As parents and professionals who work with children with hearing loss, we become expert listeners and communication decoders. That endless string of syllables? We can interpret that! That mosh of real words and unintelligible phonemes? No problem, we’ve got it covered. With our familiar ears, we often know what our children want to say, evenContinue reading “Don’t Be Too Good of a Listener”
You’re Not Getting Paid By the Word: Hanen Program Presentation
On Friday, October 8, 2010, I attended a presentation called “Parent/Caregiver-Implemented Interactive Language Intervention: Introduction to the Hanen Approach” by Toby Stephan, M.A., CCC-SLP. The presentation described the Hanen Program, a Canadian intervention designed to help parents of children with global language delays. The program, similar to a Listening and Spoken Language approach, acknowledges that parents are theirContinue reading “You’re Not Getting Paid By the Word: Hanen Program Presentation”
Praise the Process, Not the Product
When we give children praise like, “Good job!”, it may make them feel good for a moment, but what does it really tell them about the job they’ve done? In reality, it only tells them that they’ve completed the task to our satisfaction. They’ve gained the approval of an adult, which seems to be the only thingContinue reading “Praise the Process, Not the Product”
Inclusion
“Inclusion is more than just geography”
Bed Time, Bath Time, Swim Time
What do these three have in common? They’re all times when wearing a hearing device can be difficult, if not impossible and not allowed at all! Great new innovations in hearing technology are making :off the air” times fewer and farther between, but there may be some situations in which children cannot wear their equipment. Continue reading “Bed Time, Bath Time, Swim Time”
FM and Soundfield Systems
I want to start this post by saying that BOTH FM Systems and Soundfield Systems can be excellent options for students with hearing loss. Both devices function to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, making the relevant signal (i.e. the teacher’s voice) louder than the noise and distraction (i.e. other children talking, chairs scraping the floor, etc.).Continue reading “FM and Soundfield Systems”
Turning Three: Transition from Early Intervention
Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) stipulates that states must provide Early Intervention programs for children with disabilities/delays birth to age three and their families. Once a child qualifies (criteria vary from state to state, usually, the presence of a significant hearing loss is enough to qualify a child for PartContinue reading “Turning Three: Transition from Early Intervention”
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 