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 that [...]
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Your IFSP/IEP Tool Kit
Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Posted in Accommodations, Advocacy, Children, Elizabeth, High School, IFSP/IEP, New Parents, Parenting | 1 Comment »
Advanced Reading Comprehension
Monday, May 16th, 2011
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. Before I get to the meat of this post, I cannot [...]
Posted in Children, Elizabeth, High School, Literacy, School, Teens, Tips and Tricks | 2 Comments »
Debbi Culp-Hook’s Story: Raising a deaf child with Asperger’s Syndrome
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Debbi Culp-Hook has written a long story but a worthwhile to read about her overcoming obstacles in raising a son who is deaf but is a bilateral cochlear implant recipient and has Asperger’s syndrome. Her story is an inspiration for parents of deaf children with cochlear implants who have additional disabilities. Any deaf children with [...]
