26: An Example AVT Session with Lynn Wood

Lynn talks us through an examples auditory verbal therapy session for a school aged child. So many great ideas and resources in this episode!

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25: Vocabulary Stategies with Stacy Crouse

Stacy and I discuss vocabulary strategies and activities you can use with students of all ages on your caseload!

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24: Free Activities You Can Try This Week

Here’s a list of free activities that I do all the time with my students!

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23: Incorporating Themes

Some ideas on how and why I incorporate themes into my TOD sessions. These are tips that work for an itinerant caseload, low prep and ideas for lots of ages!

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22: Reading Support with Sydney Bassard

Guest Sydney Bassard and I discuss strategies for supporting reading.

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21: Auditory Comprehension Strategies

Let’s talk about STRATEGIES we can use to strengthen auditory memory and auditory comprehension.

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20: Explaining Our Job To Other People

I recorded this episode to help explain what it is we do as an itinerant Teacher of the Deaf. This episode primarily discussed supporting auditory oral students in the mainstream. My goal is that this helps give some language for TODs to use when explaining their role to others!

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19: Former DHH Student Turned TOD with Knar Marashian

Guest interview with Knar Marashian. Knar and I discuss how her personal experiences as a student receiving TOD services impact her now as a Teacher of the Deaf! We touch on self-advocacy, working with older students, listening fatigue and more!

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18: Strategies for Pushing In

Some ideas for pushing into the classroom to support self-advocacy, listening, and language skills!

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17: Taking Data on Self-Advocacy Skills

How I take data on “soft skills” like self-advocacy using rubrics!

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16: Back to School Activities

We discuss our favorite activities to do during the first week of sessions with our students, ages pre-k to high school.

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15: Scheduling and Planning Tips

We chat about how we schedule and plan for our sessions, at the beginning of the year and in general.

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14: Guest Adam Chitta on Music

We chat with Adam Chitta, a hard of hearing music teacher, all about music!

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13: Unilateral Part 2: Compensatory Strategies

We discuss compensatory strategies for unilateral listeners. These are strategies we teach the students so that they can learn to advocate for themselves.

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12: Implementing Group Sessions

Kimmy talks about the benefits of group sessions for students.

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11: LSLS Certification Process

Deanna talks about getting her LSLS certification and how she uses it in her job.

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10: Engaging Middle Schoolers Who Don’t Want to Be There

We discuss the importance of building rapport with reluctant middle school students.

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9: Applying the Auditory Hierarchy

We talk about the auditory hierarchy in detail and provide tips and examples for each level.

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8: Mixing Up Your Activity Types

We discuss our favorite paper, digital, and hands-on activities!

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7: Practical Tips for Itinerant Teaching

This episode is a mish mash of a bunch of random tips and tricks that work for us.

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