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Archive for the ‘Awareness’ Category
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Currently, there are two very important pieces of legislation awaiting approval in the United States Senate:
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2010 (S. 3199) aka “Newborn Hearing Screening” passed in the House of Representatives but also needs to pass in the Senate so that screening and early intervention programs for newborns continue to [...]
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
A few months ago, I posted THIS asking for reader opinions and feedback on the subject of children with hearing loss and additional disabilities. This spurred an independent learning project, and I promised to share with you all what I learned. Here is what I found…
STATISTICS: WHO ARE THESE CHILDREN?
Approximately 40% of children with hearing [...]
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
This is a great article about New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre and his wife teaching their son with hearing loss to hear and speak utilizing the Auditory-Verbal method! This article is creating a tremendous awareness of what deaf children can do today, as they can learn to hear and to speak thanks to [...]
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
These pictures are from the Costa Rica trip. Thank you so much to the administrators, parents, teachers, and students who allowed us to observe and capture these memories.
*Please note that some of the therapy techniques, activities, and situations shown here might not be my first choice of listening and spoken language intervention. The represent solely [...]
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
On Thursday, we drove to Costa Rica’s rainforest canopy. It was amazingly lush, filled with all kinds of insects and animals, and humid! At Turu Ba Ri park, we were able to ride zip lines across the canopy for an amazing view of wild Costa Rica, and take a horseback tour. While [...]
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Today, we returned to the Cen Cenai public preschool center (like HeadStart in the US) to continue our screenings for hearing, vision, cognition, speech, and language. Overall, we were able to screen about 75 children and provide appropriate recommendations for follow-up as needed. Conducting the hearing screenings was difficult, however, due to the [...]
Monday, March 15th, 2010
We began our day today at Kinder Papillon, an inclusive preschool that educates children with hearing loss (along with some children with other disabilities) and their hearing peers. The children in the school range from about age 2 until pre-kindergarten age, at which point the children are mainstreamed into their home schools. While [...]
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Today was Day one of my trip to Costa Rica with a group from my graduate program at Fontbonne University. Three graduate students in the Early Intervention in Deaf Education program (one of whom is a native of Costa Rica), another SLP graduate student, a professor in Deaf Education, and I are here in [...]
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Today, I was stopped at a red light, enjoying my music, when my eyes were drawn to the license plate of the car stopped in front of me: “RDLIPS” !!! Read lips, you think? I tried awkwardly to scope out the passengers of the car, but the light turned green and they were off, so [...]
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