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Monthly Archives: May 2019
Hearing Loss Common in School-Age Children
Oberkotter Foundation seeking grant applications
Tip from “Hear to Learn”
This spaceship color page will help your child learn about each of the shapes while also reinforcing colors. Use the Listening and Spoken Language strategy of expansion.
http://www.heartolearn.org/materials/docs/spaceship%20color_ENGLISH.pdf
Tip from “Hear to Learn”
We can actively teach anyone, especially children with hearing loss, how to listen using a listening model developed by Norman Erber called Erber’s levels of listening.
http://www.heartolearn.org/tutorials/listening-language/erbers-heirarchy.html
Parents’ Role in Language Intervention
Tip from “Hear to Learn”
Skip counting helps develop fluency when doing calculations, provides a building block for understanding multiplication and division, along with giving your child number sense.
http://www.heartolearn.org/materials/docs/Monster%20step%20skip%20counting_ENGLISH.pdf
Coffee Break Webinar: Better Speech and Hearing Month
The Role of Periodic Early Childhood Hearing Screening in Promoting Early Language Development
This webinar is being offered in recognition of May as the Better Speech and Hearing Month.
Research indicates that by the time children enter school, at least 6 in 1000 have permanent hearing loss. Newborn hearing screening is able to identify approximately half of these children (3 in 1000), but what about the other half who experience late onset or progressive hearing loss or who were missed by newborn screening efforts?
Date:
- May 7, 2019
Time:
- 3 PM Eastern
- 2 PM Central
- 1 PM Mountain
- 12 PM Pacific
Duration:
15-20 min plus time for questions
To Join (no need to register) just go to the following at the time of the webinar: https://ncham.adobeconnect.com/echo/
http://www.infanthearing.org/resources_home/events/better-speech-and-hearing-month/2019.html
Deaf Awareness Week: How tech companies want to make the world more accessible for deaf people
May is Better Hearing & Speech Month (BHSM)
May is Better Hearing & Speech Month (BHSM) and it provides an opportunity to raise awareness about communication disorders.
The theme for 2019 is “Communication Across the Lifespan.”