Resources & Activities to Support DHH Students
Listening, language, and self-advocacy activities to engage your students and make planning easier.
Listening, language, and self-advocacy activities to engage your students and make planning easier.
Self-Advocacy Series
Comprehensive units each with a social story and corresponding activities.
Auditory Processing Skills Made Simple
A year long collection of on-the-go auditory memory, auditory association activities.
Links and resources for aural habilitation and auditory training for deaf and hard of hearing children.
Analogies are my favorite way to expand and create a deeper understanding of vocabulary, especially when you do not have a specific word list to work from.
Low prep activities for TODs and SLPs to work on listening for context clues wit DHH students while simultaneously strengthening auditory skills.
Practical tips and mindset shifts for working smarter as an itinerant Teacher of the Deaf.
Idioms can be a challenging type of figurative language for any student. DHH students often need explicit instruction to learn these skills. I developed these language units to help teachers and speech therapists easily plan, teach, practice, and asses their students figurative language skills.
Auditory processing is how your brain understands the information that we hear. Auditory memory is being able to take the information we hear (i.e. spoken words), process it, and store it in your mind to be able to recall it when needed, both short and long-term. Many of our students benefit from extra listening practice and explicit instruction in auditory skills strategies.
Progress monitoring can be challenging for self-advocacy goals. Self-advocacy skills may be practiced in individual sessions but are most important in the classroom and in social settings. I have developed these progress monitoring rubrics to help quantify these skills and show progress over time.
5 auditory memory strategies to help improve your students with listening and auditory comprehension skills.
Ideas for teaching multiple meaning words in hearing and speech therapy. Here’s how to teach multiple meaning words using 4 easy strategies!
This blog will discuss what’s typically included in the teacher in-service, tips for giving an impactful presentation, and links to resources you can include.
Here are some of the listening activities I have been using during this time of distance learning:
I’m the Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing behind Listening Fun! I work with all ages—from early intervention to high school.
When I started teaching, I began to make my own resources to fill the unique needs of my students. It all started with a little booklet to teach a kindergartner about her FM system…
Teaching students with hearing loss about the parts of their ear helps them understand their hearing loss. A solid understanding of hearing loss helps students build the confidence they need to advocate for themselves in school and beyond.