Educators of students with hearing loss should aim to offer all the support needed so these students can experience success and achieve their full potential at school. Educators play a vital part in ensuring access to classroom instruction and activities as well as integration and participation in the broader life at school for students with hearing devices.
We interviewed parents of cochlear implant users about their children’s kindergarten and school experiences. In this article, they share some insights and tips on how to have a successful school year with cochlear implants.
Preschool and school-aged children receiving implants may have had some hearing, speech, and language before implantation. But even so, the time after activation is an adjustment period as they hear both new and familiar speech sounds. Here are some strategies caregivers can use to support their preschool and school-aged children to achieve success with their speech.
It might be the first time that your child’s teacher is working with a student who has hearing loss or a cochlear implant. But as a parent, you’ve been learning and collecting information about your child’s hearing loss and device since their diagnosis. This puts you in the perfect position to support and offer advice to your child’s teacher. Here’s how to do it.
If your child has hearing loss, confidence, resilience, and self-advocacy are especially important to their development. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at these attributes and show you how to build them in your child.
