All Courses
Alphabetical List of All Courses
Five Keys to Learning - Specific Instructional Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes
Student success is profoundly influenced by the quality of interaction with adults. Systematic scientific study has indicated five specific instructional strategies that when used, positively impact learning. These 5 strategies will be described.
Academic Success is Driven by Communication Access
Ensuring access to classroom communication is the #1 job of every educator who serves students with hearing loss. In this session is information about impact of hearing loss, legal foundations for access, and estimating communication access levels.
The Accessible General Education Classroom
This training provides strategies for addressing classroom barriers that can prevent students with hearing loss from reaching their academic potential, options for evaluation, IEP development and ensuring the classroom is the right fit for students.
Advocating for Appropriate Educational Services and Supports
IEP teams are tasked with determining the appropriate educational placements for students with disabilities. However, determining placements for students with hearing loss isn't always cut and dry! Even when data is available to help make informed recommendations, there are many outlying factors that contribute to placement determination. Creating placement opportunities which are “appropriate” and Least Restrictive can be a daunting task. Join Thomas Horejas, as he discusses the legal obligations for school districts, as placement decisions are made. Being able to articulate reasons for placement decisions based on the needs of a student with hearing loss is a critical part of Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing’s role as a professional.
Autobiographical Memory and Theory of Mind
Ensuring access to classroom communication is the #1 job of every educator who serves students with hearing loss. In this session is information about impact of hearing loss, legal foundations for access, and estimating communication access levels.
Auditory Processing Disorder in the Educational Setting
Auditory processing disorder affects a significant number of children in our school systems. It is estimated that 43% of kids with learning disabilities have an APD. This presentation will address risk factors, symptoms, testing, therapy, and appropriate accommodations for students with auditory processing disorder with and without hearing loss in the school setting.
Beyond the Books – Developing Self-Determination in Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
This session explores structured peer and mentor programs for students who are deaf and hard of hearing, the benefits of self-determination and the development of a tool facilitating peer-connection, education, advocacy, and knowledge for students who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Beyond the Hearing Aid – The Impact of Hearing Loss in the Classroom and Strategies for Access
Physical presence in a classroom, in no way, guarantees a student who is hard of hearing equal access to the auditory curriculum. There are numerous barriers to this access, many of which are overlooked. In this course, barriers that impact access and practical strategies to overcome these barriers will be discussed.
Communication Access Link to Success & What Families Can Do
This course presents information about the link between hearing loss and other developmental issues. It then focuses on 5 areas that families can focus on to support their child's success. For DHH professionals, educators, families.
Conversation Paves the Way to Language Learning and School Success
Conversation is a critical skill to expose students to vocabulary and encourage language growth. This session describes the Kendall Conversational Proficiency Level Scale to guide in targeting conversational skills to support academic success.
Counseling Strategies for Tweens and Teens with Hearing Loss
This presentation will describe a range of strategies designed to give young people with hearing loss an opportunity to talk to us as we redefine our role to listener and supporter.
Cracking the Assessment Code: How to integrate listening assessment data into goals and classroom instructionsit
Do you ever wonder why we gather assessment data for our students? What exactly do we do with that data once we get it? Join us as we explore the how to’s of the giant puzzle of assessment data, smart goals and classroom instruction for students with hearing differences.
Creating Best Practice & Compliant IEPs
This webinar provides a brief overview of special education law, outline compliance indicators for writing Individualized Education Plans for students with hearing loss and discuss best practices for writing an IEP.
Developing Reading Comprehension for DHH Students with Low English Language Skills
Discusses effective, beginning vocabulary and reading instruction. Students learn to construct meaning independently during specific reading tasks. This information is essential for students who do not have access to phonetic information in English.
RID CEUs.
Developing Written Language for DHH Students with Low English Language Skills
Presents critical instruction at-risk DHH students need to become independent writers. Students learn to construct meaning independently in specific reading tasks. This information is essential for students who do not have access to phonetic English. RID CEUs.
Estimating Effects of Hearing Loss on Speech Perception and Auditory Skill Development
Hearing loss- no doubt-impacts the way a child will perceive speech sounds. Aspects of speech such as intensity, and frequency will be affected by hearing loss. Severity and type of hearing loss impacts how a child perceives speech but determining how much impact, and exactly what areas of speech are affected, will need to be determined before efforts to provide intervention can be developed. Join Dr. Mona Oster as she talks about ways to determine HOW and to WHAT EXTENT, hearing loss has impacted a child’s speech perception and auditory skill development. Then she discusses ways that professionals can help a child access missed speech sounds. Dr. Oster will answer questions about how amplification impacts access to speech perception.
Facilitating Conversational Competence
All students MUST have a way to converse because let’s face it, they ALL have something to say! Therefore, the importance of addressing needs in all forms of expressive and receptive languages and communication styles is paramount. Whether the student uses speech, signed, or augmentative communication systems, there HAS to be a way to converse and something to talk about, but some students need assistance facilitating communication. Join Dr. Diane Heller Klein, a Speech/Language Pathologist and trained Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, who has worked in the field of deaf education for over 40+ years, talk about identifying students who are in need of conversational competency skills and how you can help model appropriate skills through facilitating compromised situations to create appropriate communication skills and eliminate counterproductive behaviors to communication.
Focused Functional Assessment
Interview style course with presenter Dr. Karen Anderson. Dr. Anderson discusses WHY it is critical to perform functional assessments, the disadvantages of only obtaining norm-referenced information, HOW to apply the framework of the Deaf Lens in planning to assess, plus examples of WHAT assessments can be used. Includes resources.
Getting Through to Teachers: Accessing the General Education Curriculum
Join Barbara Chubb, teacher, administrator and fearless leader in deaf education, as she talks about hearing loss as a disability of access. This interview will help professionals working with students who have hearing loss, determine how to assess accessibility and provide suggestions for increasing students ability to access information through Hearing Assistive Technology, assistive technology, collaboration, accommodations and modifications in the general education classroom.
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HL + LD: Addressing the Needs of Students with Hearing Loss Plus Learning Disabilities
This session will take a practical look at the identification and programming for students who have hearing loss coinciding with learning disabilities. Direct instruction, strategy instruction, and rehearsal and practice ideas to support students academically will be discussed. Accommodations and modifications necessary for academic success will be presented.
Improving Spelling Skills as an Integral Part of Better Writing
What does developmental spelling look like for students who are DHH? This session will lead participants through a developmental spelling assessment, review of different word stages and provide instructional strategies within each stage. Ways to differentiate communication and instruction to optimize learning for each student will also be included.
Interpreting the Audiogram Meaningfully
The audiogram is a chart depicting how well a person detects sound. Skillful interpretation can provide useful information about how well a student may be able to access speech in typical school settings and to share this information with others.
Intervention Techniques - Case Studies: From Evaluation to Intervention
This session will feature student case studies including evaluation results, IEP goals written, examples of Itinerant Session intervention and resulting impact that the Itinerant session had on baseline data. Includes student session video clips.
Keeping Hearing Aids on Active Young Children
This course reviews reasons why early hearing device use is important and describes why infants and toddlers remove hearing devices at different ages. Also explores strategies and accessories that can be used to keep hearing devices on young children
Literacy Support: Improving Decoding, Comprehension & Fluency Skills
This session will provide ways to support literacy instruction in the regular classroom by the development of underlying skills related to speed and accuracy of decoding, fluency and comprehension of oral and written language.
Maximizing the Itinerant Visit - Making the Most of Your Time
Using itinerant teaching time wisely in order to benefit the student is priority one. Participants will learn effective ways to plan, prepare, execute and collect data during itinerant sessions with students from early education to high school.
Meeting Student Needs in a Consultation-Only Model
Increasingly, the field of deaf education is moving toward an itinerant, consultation-focused model. This presentation will consider how to structure indirect services to increase impact, encourage educator buy-in, and go beyond the “one and done” team training in pursuit of sustained and impactful communication with teams.
Meeting Unique Student Needs in Changing Times
This training will discuss the issues of students with hearing loss not receiving appropriately intensive services, focus and provide strategies for working with administrators and school teams to advocate for appropriate services.
My Ears are Tired: Fatigue in Children with Hearing Loss
Recent research has revealed that some children with hearing loss report significant subjective “listening-related fatigue” due to challenging communication exchanges. It is of utmost importance to identify those struggling with fatigue via structured questionnaires to consider appropriate supports that can be utilized to reduce fatigue’s effects.
Odd Man Out: Addressing Self-Concept Needs of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Students with hearing loss may struggle with self concept issues, particularly as they get older. Dr. Brett Bersano will talk about research results from his studies at Gallaudet that specifically address how self- concept is affected by hearing loss, gender, age, and educational placement. Dr. Bersano will help differentiate terms that can be confused with self- concept, such as self- confidence and self- esteem and discuss how concept and esteem are part of self- concept development. He uses research results to validate practices within the areas of self- concept and academic self- concept for students. Dr. Bersano provides insight to help students overcome issues, and resources and techniques to help participants assist their students in need.
Owning Communication Repair Strategies
Maura Berndsen, LSLS specialist, provides participants with an overview of how communication repair strategies can be facilitated with students of all ages. Beginning at birth, children with hearing loss need early support providers to help encourage students with language and communication in order to develop their skills for school aged strategies. She explains how students can develop their self-advocacy skills and repair strategies skills, using a list of thirteen things that we all do, for communication repair. She will help participants navigate the Student Communication Inventory and Practical Training (SCRIPT), and provide an overview for when SCRIPT is appropriate to use, and provide suggestions for how to use the SCRIPT with students.
Postsecondary Transitioning for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The power of teachers to change the trajectory of students can be profound. This is a short account of Zahra’s transition from high school to college, the obstacles she faced, and the success she finally found. Drawing upon strength she didn’t know she had, she advocated for the services she needed to finish her degree. Zahra offers advice to teachers and students using her experience.
Practical Ideas for the Itinerant Visit
As an itinerant, our time with students is so limited, we can often feel our instruction is ineffective. This course provides practical ideas to help you meet the individual goals and objectives set for your student while making your time fun and educational.
Preparing Students for College or Work Success, Not Just High School
During this session, you will explore skills that students with hearing loss need to have to be successful no matter what their path will be. When we are working with all ages of students, we are preparing them for life, not just high school.
Providing Appropriate Academic Support - Skill Development, Not Tutoring
In learning about the three domains of learning and specific skill hierarchies, this session will provide assessments to determine present skill levels and instructional strategies to improve skill development in all areas of curriculum content.
Repairing Communication Breakdowns in Everyday Situations
Communication breakdowns happen to everyone, and more so to students with hearing loss. This session will provide information on ways to assess communication repair needs, and strategies to develop skills. RID CEUs.
Secondary Transition -the FUN way- for DHH Students
Do you feel overwhelmed when you have a student on your caseload who is in need of secondary transition planning? Do you know how to write a transition plan, but get confused on how to integrate transition into the student’s daily lessons?
Self-Advocacy in Action
Students must develop the ability to advocate for their needs. . This session will provide a framework for specific instruction, ways to measure progress, and support students at all levels.
Social Skills Loud and Clear: Building and Supporting Social Skills for Students with Hearing Loss in the Mainstream
Research on a variety of relationship issues such as incidental learning, pragmatic language, and self-acceptance will be covered along with how the development of social skills can be taught and supported in the educational setting. RID CEUs.
Soundless Symphony: Unveiling the Extraordinary Pathway of Learning for Deaf Children
Describes the implications of early language fluency on social, cognitive, and language development. Debunks myths about the ways children with hearing loss learn and provides evidence-based information supporting the nuances of learning.
Starting from Scratch – Building Language Where There is None
This session presents strategies helpful in building concepts, language, and vocabulary from the bottom up in students that come to us with little or no language. We will look into finding a starting point and moving forward through an appropriate service delivery model.
STRESS FREE Strategies: Classroom Instruction Ideas to Promote Listening and Spoken Language
Do you have a widely varied caseload? Do the students with hearing differences you serve all have different levels of need? Join us as we explore how to streamline your use of strategies to target listening and spoken language skills in everyday classroom activities.
Tailoring Services via the Communication Modality Continuum
Delivery of instruction can involve multiple communication modalities. This session focuses on how to use different aspects along the communication continuum in different circumstances to creatively support student learning. RID CEUs.
Teaching Academic Reading and Writing Vocabulary
This session will focus on classroom routines that teachers can sustain throughout the year to increase 1) sight word reading and 2) vocabulary. The presentation will provide instructional activities that include usage of English grammar and sight words to help you answer, "Which words do I teach? and "How do I teach them?". Discover how to teach academic reading and writing vocabulary.
Teaching Students About Their Hearing Loss and Devices
Students must have the knowledge, language, and social skills needed to manage their technology and explain it to others. This session provides strategies to support students in developing their knowledge, use, and advocacy for their technology.
Teaching Students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing with Additional Disabilities
Some students who are deaf or hard of hearing have concomitant disabilities that pose challenges and educational needs not accommodated in educational programs that focus on one of the disabilities. This session will discuss who these learners with additional disabilities are, and how to address their challenges and educational needs.
Understanding Assessments for Students with Hearing Loss
Learn how to write appropriate present level of academic achievement and functional performance statements as well as how to write appropriate IEP goals and objectives. Plus information on various assessments to use with children with hearing loss.
Using Children's Story Literature to Teach Listening and Language
This session shares elements of a story and ways to enhance the auditory comprehension development of the young reader. Participants will write objectives for auditory skills development based o stories within an auditory learning hierarchy.
Using Great Instructional Materials for Great Outcomes
The “Itinerant Trunk Show”! Having readily available materials is necessary to meet student needs. This presentation will share many “tried and true” ideas for highly useful materials to use with students with hearing loss.
Using Great Materials for Great Outcomes – 2021 Trunk Show
This short course features 9 presenters talking about materials they love to use with their students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Enjoy listening to your DHH colleagues talk about great materials for great outcomes!
Using myASLTech.com to Create Your Own Materials
Are there students you serve who use American Sign Language? Students who need sign support? The myASLTech.com resource is for SO much more than just creating materials. It’s a dictionary, a sign generator, a concept generator with publishing capabilities that include templates, games, a thesaurus, stories, an ASL library, and quizmaker. The myASLTech.com site is also connected to the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) to provide resources for teaching. You will be amazed at how much a membership has to offer. This is a FREE tutorial covering all aspects of a membership. If you have a membership and need help, or if you are looking into purchasing a membership, this video is for YOU.
Using Research-Based, High Leverage Practices with DHH Students: An Introduction
Buzz words such as “evidence-based” and “high-leverage” are thrown around in education, but what do they actually mean? How can we utilize them to improve practice in the field of deaf education? This presentation will provide a practical overview of these terms relevant to our work with students who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Using the FLE: Administering the Functional Listening Evaluation Using Sentences
The Recorded FLE Using Sentences assists in ‘making the case’ that hearing loss interferes with school access. This course includes a video showing administration of the FLE.
Visualizing Vocabulary - Improving Word Association and Retrieval Skills
This session will provide ways to creating accurate and complex pictures, increases word retrieval speed and broadens word knowledge through expanded word association. RID CEUs.
Vocabulary - More than a Word List
This session will present ways to develop a deep understanding of word meaning in oral and written language by providing ways to assess competency and teach to mastery. It will discuss word memory and word consciousness as well as 3 levels of mastery. RID CEUs.
Ways to Improve Literacy Achievement for Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Reading achievement for students with hearing loss has certainly changed since the introduction of newborn hearing screenings, and identifying students with hearing loss earlier than before. However, there are still learning gaps that affect instructional practices and outcomes for students with hearing loss. Listen to Dr. Jennifer Kilpatrick, a seasoned teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, and now literacy professor at University of Northern Florida, as she walks participants through various literacy and writing strategies to help students with hearing loss enhance their skills in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and ultimately comprehension. Dr. Kilpatrick will explain how writing and literacy should be integrated and taught strategically to target areas of needs.
What and When: Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination Skills
We have all heard of self-advocacy skills before, but what is self-determination and how is it different from advocacy? This interview explains how self-advocacy and self-determination are not necessarily synonymous terms, and the importance of teaching both.
What We Can Do to Prevent Rejection of Hearing Device Use
Research indicates that at least 25% of our students will reject their hearing aids and/or hearing assistance technology (HAT). Reasons why this occurs at different age points will be discussed, and specific learning goals will be described so students develop the resilience and self-concept to continue to use their hearing devices.
Working with Multilingual Immigrant Students who are Deaf
The experiences of Multilingual immigrant Deaf students (MIDS) include an intersection of variables associated with language, culture, literacy, and immigration, making the teaching and learning process more complex. This course will examine the learners' experiences, educational accommodations, teachers' assumptions, creating an inclusive classroom, and strategies for teaching MIDS.
Unilateral Loss IS Important
Unilateral hearing loss or single sided deafness has implications on learning and accessing information across listening environments. Listen to Dr. Nicole Corbin as she talks about unilateral hearing loss from an audiologists perspective, and explains how unilateral losses can impact access and the needs for specific accommodations and modifications in the general education classroom, as well as non academic listening environments that will help provide access for students with unilateral loss.
WORKSHOP - Steps to Assessment - Identifying Educational Needs for Students with Hearing Loss
This 7.5-hour workshop presents appropriate assessment practices for children who are DHH from transition to school at age 3 through high school. Advocate with school teams for appropriately tailored assessment and program planning.
WORKSHOP: Identifying Self-Advocacy Needs and Steps to Build Self-Advocacy Skills
This extensive 5 -hour workshop will walk you through how to identify self-advocacy needs for children from transition to school at age 3 through high school and strategies to provide specific instruction.
