Description
Feel confident supporting deaf and hard of hearing students in speech therapy. This guidebook gives SLPs and SLPAs concise, easy-to-understand information on hearing loss, plus strategies you can use in your sessions right away.
Learn how to read audiograms, how hearing loss affects speech development, information on hearing aids and cochlear implants, and what assistive technology you’re likely to see in schools. You’ll also find pages on auditory processing disorder, auditory fatigue, the auditory hierarchy, and the Ling Six Sound Test.
Understand the SLP’s role alongside the audiologist and the rest of the team, and share handouts with teachers and caregivers so everyone is working from the same information.
Use the instructional strategies, communication repair strategies, and classroom accommodation suggestions for effective speech therapy sessions!
This guidebook is for you if you…
➜ Feel underprepared to serve your DHH students
➜ Are looking for concrete strategies and accommodations to use right away
➜ Want to be able to explain how hearing loss impacts speech, academics, and social skills
➜ Need a refresh on auditory processing disorder, the auditory hierarchy, and auditory fatigue
➜ Want to read audiograms, understand types of hearing loss, devices, and FM technology with confidence
➜ Would like clear handouts to share with teachers and families
✅ WHAT’S INCLUDED
33 HEARING LOSS HANDOUTS (IN COLOR + BLACK & WHITE)
- Your Role Working with DHH Children
- Communication Approaches for DHH Students
- How Hearing Loss Can Impact Speech Development Handout
- How Hearing Loss Impacts Speech Information Pages
- Academic and Social Impacts
- Ear Anatomy Diagram
- Primary Causes of Hearing Loss
- Types of Hearing Loss
- Audiograms
- Speech Banana Visual
- Audibility & Intelligibility: Speech Banana Companion
- The Ling Six Sound Test + Picture Cards + Data Collection Sheet
- Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Diagrams
- Types of Assistive Technology
- Assistive Technology in the Classroom
- What is the Auditory Hierarchy?
- Auditory Hierarchy Visual + Auditory Hierarchy Definitions
- Auditory Processing Disorder
- Auditory Fatigue
- Common Classroom Accommodations Handout
- Communication Breakdown Repair Strategies Handout
- 16 Instructional Strategies List
- Respectful Language Guide Handout
- Hearing Loss Myths Vs. Facts Handout
- Hearing Loss Special Considerations
- DHH Books List
ALSO INCLUDED:
- Glossary
- Online resources
- References
- Binder cover and spine label
- Black-and-white versions for print-friendly sharing with teachers and families
Use the hyperlinked table of contents to find what you need quickly! This document is easily used on a device.
➡️ ASSEMBLY IDEAS:
- Place in sheet protectors in a binder
- Frame as posters for your wall
- Make a bulletin board
- On-the-go: print 4 to a page, laminate, and put on a keyring
Look at the preview to see examples!
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This is a digital product that will be available for download upon purchase. Due to the nature of this product, there are no returns.
Copyright © Allison Fors, Inc. All rights reserved by author.
Do not share this document with anyone or upload it to the Internet or your website. Copying any part of this product and placing it on the Internet in any form is strictly forbidden. Do not modify or alter this document. Permission to reproduce for individual use only. If you would like to share with other therapists or teachers, please purchase additional licenses or direct them to my store. You may share individual pages with the families with whom you work.








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