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HEARING LOSS
Everything You Need to Know as a Classroom Teacher
What You Need to Know: How the Ear Hears
Types of Hearing
Loss Amplification &
Assistive Devices
Teaching Strategies
Types of Hearing Loss
Conductive Hearing Loss
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Mixed Hearing Loss
Progressive Hearing Loss
Problems Caused by Hearing Loss
Causes development delays for
students Academically
Socially
Vocationally
Hearing Loss is an ‘invisible filter’ – information is distorted.
Hearing loss causes distorted input to the brain.
How to Help Students With Hearing Loss
Provide better acoustics in the classrooms
Classroom strategies to aid the child’s instruction
Model and promote a positive attitude
Amplification helps the child get correct input to the brain.
POINTS TO REMEMBER ABOUT HEARING LOSS You can’t fix a hearing loss
Any hearing loss – even MILD – impact children’s learning
Improving classroom acoustics will improve learning for hearing and hearing impaired children
If children can’t hear, they can’t learn
Success in Life Begins With Hearing!
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Flexer, Carol, (1999). San Diago: Singular Publishing Group, Inc. Hearing in Children
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The Changing Sound of Education Towne, Robin M., Anderson, Karen L.., (1997). Washington: Sound
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Elementary School Children Zabel, Helen, Tabor, Martha, (1993). IA: Educational Audiology
Monograph 3. Acoustics in Educational Settings
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, (1995, March). Position Statement Subcommittee on Acoustics in Educational Settings, Bioacoustics Standards & Noise Standards Committee.
Bibliography The Hard-of-Hearing Student in the Mainstream
Clarke School, (September 1994, Vol. 14, No. 2). Northampton:The Mainstream Center. Clarke Mainstream News.
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Using Sound-Field Systems to Teach Phonemic Awareness to Pre-Schoolers.
Flexer, Carol, Biley, Kate Kemp, Hinkley, Alyssa, Harkema, Charyl, Holcomb, John, (March 2002, vol. 55 No.3). The Hearing Journal
A Process-Oriented Preschool For Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children
Gatty, Janice, Hartblay, Marian, Dobson, Tracy, Judd, Diane, Altman, Holly, Goodrow, Pamela, (October 1994). Northampton
Checklist of Important Points About Sound-Field Amplification Sound-Field FM Amplication: Theory and Practical Applicaiton
Bibliography
Graphics Ear Diagram www.horizon.bc.cal~malone/technical.html www.colostate.edu/~gnelson/ear.html
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