Services Provided Include:
- Support families of newborns with hearing loss, delivering direct services to their homes to enhance communication, learning skills, amplification management, and encouragement at the earliest age for acquiring language.
- Support D/HH children to develop age appropriate expressive and receptive communication language skills to compare with their peers.
- Provide D/HH children with effective and mutually respectful partnerships established between and among educators, families, and programs that serve those children and their families.
- Assist families to make decisions with instructional teams for the most effective learning environment based on the child's educational, social, emotional, cognitive and physical abilities and needs.
- Discuss and evaluate technology to provide unique and necessary communication and educational access. To train and encourage D/HH students to learn and analyze the technology that helps them solve problems, and make decisions, in becoming contributing citizens.
- Offer support to students, their families and the educational environment through connections with state wide services throughout different transition stages.
Deaf and Hard Of Hearing Staff
Audiology
Services Provided Include:
- Interpret hearing test results for school personnel.
- Provide in-services on the impact of hearing loss on the student's listening and academic performance.
- Recommend and manage assistive listening devices for children with hearing loss to be used in the schools.
- Work with the Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in developing educational strategies including specific recommendations.
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Sarah Kahley, Audiologist |
Additional Resources:
www.babyhearing.org
www.nidcd.nih.gov
www.agbell.org