Teasing, bullying, and their sometimes deadly consequences are in the news a lot lately. Parents of all children, especially those with hearing loss, have good reason to be concerned about this troubling phenomenon. How can we help keep our children safe, confident, and bully-proof for life? A comprehensive anti-bullying approach includes interventions that help children [...]
Archive for the ‘Teens’ Category
Sports and Hearing Loss
Monday, June 13th, 2011
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! Time Out! I Didn’t Hear You is a book available in its entirety as an online PDF. [...]
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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 [...]
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Dominican Republic 2011: Part I
Monday, March 28th, 2011
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. First, some background. It is estimated that there are approximately 78,000 children with hearing loss in the Dominican Republic, but statistics are inexact. There is [...]
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Online Practice for Listening
Monday, December 13th, 2010
While nothing can replace the services of a trained professional who knows you and your case, here are a few resources for listening practice with your cochlear implant online: The Listening Room provides tons of auditory activities specifically for cochlear implant users. There are sections for babies and toddlers, kids, and teens and adults. It’s [...]
