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!

Bibliography Facilitating Hearing and Listening in Young Children

Flexer, Carol, (1999). San Diago: Singular Publishing Group, Inc. Hearing in Children

Northern, Jerry L., Down, Marion P., (2002). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

ASA Workshop, A thorough look at classroom acoustics Shaw, Neil A., Sound and Communication.

The Changing Sound of Education Towne, Robin M., Anderson, Karen L.., (1997). Washington: Sound

and Vibration Effects of Soundfield Amplification on Spelling Performance of

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.

Teaching Strategies www.hiino32.htmatcurriculum.qed.qld.gov.au

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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