I just saw my 3rd grade student today. She has a moderate-severe hearing loss in both ears. She is language delayed in English due to coming from a Spanish speaking home, having a possible undiagnosed disorder, and getting a hearing aid and hearing services late in life. She was happy and cute Read More
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Classroom Interpreter Issues
September 2nd, 2010 by Eh? What? Huh?
Posted in ASL, Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
First day of school….
August 31st, 2010 by Growing Fruit
Tomorrow is our first day of school. Andrew has been dreading it for weeks and today was so upset. I gave him a new backpack…with a monkey. He said, “I wish it was Mario.” At some point today we were talking about something and he said “that is 50 of the whole.” He Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Assessments
August 26th, 2010 by The Lutz Family Fun Page
Jason and I had an appointment yesterday with the people at the Early Learning Center for his assessment into preschool. We hung out and Jason played in their waiting room for a minute. Karen, who was in charge of the meeting, came into introduce herself. She of course had a lot of paper work on Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
School Has Started!
August 20th, 2010 by From Silence to Song
First day of school pictures. He’s so proud of his Toy Story clothes, backpack, and lunchbox. One of the scariest parts of moving when you have a kid under the special ed. umbrella is the fact that you always have to wonder if the new school district will be able to meet your Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Finally Moved and Ready to Blog Again
August 20th, 2010 by From Silence to Song
There are so many updates to post about, but I’m a little bit limited on time. I will be posting at least once a day for the next little while as I try to get caught up. Hopefully that will start a new habit, and I’ll be more consistant like I used to be. While you wait on those fun Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Field trip to Athens
August 7th, 2010 by The McKee Family
Athens, Georgia, that is. Yesterday Karen and I took our kids on the first field trip of my school year. We ventured over to Athens, Georgia (about two hours southeast of here) and visited The State Botanical Garden of Georgia as well as a very nice playground nearby. We tried to visit a Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
caution! hard hat area — uncoordinated teacher at work
July 27th, 2010 by Confessions
For the last three weekdays, it’s been just me, the janitors, and the principal at school. I’ve been trying to get things set up so that I can leave on our last vacation of the summer without wigging out at all the stuff I have to do before the first day of school. Below are the Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
Glad to be Home!
July 24th, 2010 by The Shaddox Boys
Well after a nice vacation from my kids(Is that a bad thing for me to say??), I am now home. I met my mom at La Madeline in Rockwall to get the boys. When I walked in and Elijah saw me, he ran straight to me with the biggest grin and hug. He had really missed me over the last three days. Jacob Read More
Posted in Education, Hearing Loss |
Blog Walk Week 5
July 14th, 2010 by Growing Fruit
Enjoy these blogs of my TOS review crewmates 1. Buckaroo Days 2. Our Homeschool Reviews 3. Reed, Party of 6 4. Training Hearts at Home 5. Along The Way 6. I Love Science! 7. Through the Calm and Through the Storm 8. Created for Home 9. Tractors and Tire Swings 10. Guiding Light Homeschool Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education |
Bittersweet Blessings
July 9th, 2010 by From Silence to Song
Moving has proven to be more heart wrenching for me than I expected it to be. There are just so many things here that I am very attached to, and leaving those things behind is traumatic. I am very bonded and completely trust our ECI team. They are AMAZING people and have been the glue Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER!
July 1st, 2010 by Live*Laugh*Love*Family
What an absolutely amazing year full of fun friends and wonderful teachers. As I was setting up the Frog Class party while the kids were down in the gym getting ready for the Community Meeting, I just stepped back and took it all in. In this beautiful classroom with so many things to explore and Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Oh, Really….
July 1st, 2010 by Beneath the Wings
[image: the beach] Today the girls from Ricki’s school are going to the ocean. We are near the Mediterranean, and I, for one, am glad that she can go to the beach without me taking her. (I probably will take her myself a few times later in the summer.) Last night we carefully packed her bag, Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Special Exposure Wednesday- Golden Oldie #5
June 22nd, 2010 by Beneath the Wings
[picture: Ricki singing in the graduation from kindergarden.] Here in Israel, the regular schools are drawing to a close, repleate with all sorts of end-of-the-year celebrations. This reminds me of years ago, when Ricki finished kindergarden. Her teacher that year gave her TWO parts in the Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
MSDB Weekend
June 8th, 2010 by Tayten Matthew
We finally had a chance to sneak away and meet some Montana families. What a great experience! Unfortunately, most of them are still 4+ hours away!! To start, this was the first time our family has had the chance to be among Deaf people and it was amazing. Everyone at the school was so welcoming Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
School Announcements
June 3rd, 2010 by Hearing Sparks
A recent post from Cochlear Kids touched on the difficulty her kids have hearing certain announcements. It reminded me a lot of my own difficulty hearing announcements over my school’s intercom and I thought I would remind parents and educators out there to take a moment to ensure all of Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
OMG! Homophones!
May 28th, 2010 by Confessions
I was going through a stack of student work this morning and almost fell off my chair laughing when I saw this: This was an assignment to illustrate sets of homophones and write a sentence for each one under their respective flap. One of my dear students wrote and drew this masterpiece for the Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
Revision of Maths
May 28th, 2010 by Impaired but Empowered
Posted in Education, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Do Not Put it Off!
May 23rd, 2010 by Hearing Elmo
This week marked the end of my son’s life as a high school student. In a couple of weeks, my parents will be here to celebrate at his graduation ceremonies for Chieftain Christian Academy. Although Chris did most of his senior year at a local community college (since he goes free thanks to Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Shiny new toy
May 21st, 2010 by Confessions
I was very excited to have won the Mini-Mountain from Zillio Games recently! It came in the mail a few days ago, and when I saw it in person and read through the gazillion math games you can play on it (from basic counting and sequencing to complicated multiplication and division), well… Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
Play Group, Painting, Neighbors, Music, and Dance
May 21st, 2010 by The Lutz Family Fun Page
Jason and I had a hard time waking up yesterday morning. I wasn’t really sure we were going to make it to Playgroup on time but we were successful. Jason does really good with the schedule strip. He really understanding what they want him to do. He sat through circle time pretty well. He Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid, Music |
“Hapy BirT Dey” — The Beauty of Internal Motivation
May 20th, 2010 by Cochlear Implant Online
I was working with a little guy the other day — a kindergarten student. He was hard at work hunched over a piece of paper with a crayon in his hand. I peeked over his shoulder and said, “Hey! That’s great! You wrote Happy Birthday!” His little eyes looked up at me and he broke into [...] Read More
Posted in AVT, Auditory/Oral, Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Uncategorized |
Don’t look now, but… you’re being watched
May 18th, 2010 by Confessions
| Welcome to the May Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival, ‘Kids and Learning.’ The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by Science@home is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners. This month our bloggers have come up with some wonderful suggestions for fun things to do with Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
Free Batteries, News
May 18th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
A reader of this blog who I’ve become pretty good friends with shared some links with me about free hearing aid batteries. I thought I’d pass them along to anyone who may be interested. *Disclaimer* I have never used, nor do I endorse any of the websites mentioned for free batteries. Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Thirteen Months–Teacher Story
May 4th, 2010 by The Shaddox Boys
One January, we returned to school after the Christmas Break. I had not written the date on the board yet. Emily looked up at me and said, “What is the date?” Before I could answer, she said, “Oh I know, it is 13/04/07(13, 04, 07).” She said it just like that. The other students looked Read More
Posted in Auditory/Oral, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Hotels
May 2nd, 2010 by Follow Your Bliss
Although we continue to play in our classroom Cakery our next exploration is underway. It may seem like an odd choice but the students voted and decided that they wanted to learn about… Hotels! Two weeks ago we went to visit our first hotel – Hotel Giraffe. We took pictures and Read More
Posted in Deaf, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
It’s That Time of the Week, Again!
April 30th, 2010 by Blissful Blunders
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
AWAKEN
April 29th, 2010 by ME AND MY DEAF CHILD
Last April 27 is my birthday, i usually do some assessing , this time i didn’t do it, for I know everyday is a new day with God, I don’t suppose to feel guilty of the things I haven’t done,letting go and forgiving is already given to us,I look back to my last blogs, full of Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
More Soccer, More Dance, Paula
April 28th, 2010 by The Lutz Family Fun Page
Today was pretty normal. The kids woke me up yelling at each other. Yes. This is a normal school morning…..how to fix that, I don’t know. Jason and I had fun today. We played and jumped on the exercise tramp. I thought of a way to play with Jason on the trampoline. We count down from Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
Must Be the Change in the Weather..
April 28th, 2010 by An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Implant Story
Jordan: Mammaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I’m home!!! Pyjama party!!!!! I look at him like what?? Jordan opens his knapsack and pulls out his pyjama top. Mamma: Why do you have your pyjama top in your knapsack? Jordan: Buahahahahahahaha. Mamma: ?????????????????????? Jordan: I took my jacket off Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
IEP Checklist iPhone Application
April 22nd, 2010 by Eh? What? Huh?
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