Building Skills for Success in the Fast Paced Classroom

The world of educating students with hearing loss has changed considerably in recent years due to the nationwide success of early identification of hearing loss, early amplification options, and the continuing evolution of hearing technology. A student with hearing loss is now more likely than ever to be mainstreamed into a typical classroom in the home district, often as the only student with hearing loss in the school. Despite entering school with improved language and listening skills as compared to prior decades, today's student with hearing loss continues to remain at a disadvantage when learning in a large group setting with fast-paced teacher and peer communication.Building Skills for Success in the Fast-Paced Classroom provides resources that will assist these students to optimize their achievement through improved access and self-advocacy. It includes many new evaluation materials that assess the communication competence, self-concept development and instructional and curricular access of students with hearing loss, as well as informational materials for school staff, students and parents. Many publications provide information on supporting students with hearing loss who have academic or language learning needs. The information contained here targets the "expanded core curriculum," or those skills that must be mastered in order to benefit from the core curriculum. This book focuses evaluation and instruction on those key areas and offers teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, speech language clinicians, and educational audiologists who serve these students a wealth of resources to optimize student achievement. Topics include, by chapter: Evaluation Understanding the Effects of Hearing Loss Social and Conversational Competence Communication Repair: Script Self Concept Self Advocacy Accessing the General Education Curriculum