Resource Binder Resource Binder Brittany Melefsky

Current ResearchCurrent Research

http://www.healthyhearing.com/articles/7717-auditory-oral-education-teaching

“Auditory-Oral Education: Teaching Deaf Children To Talk”

Positives of oral education as put out by Healthy Hearing

◦Friday, November 16th 2001

http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/cimplants/bluetooth_paper.pdf

“A Phone-Assistive Device Based on Bluetooth Technology for Cochlear Implant

Users”

Helping to further benefit people with a hearing loss through technological advances.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100221143158.htm

Word Learning Better in Deaf Children Who Receive Cochlear Implants by

Age 13 Months

With a critical learning window of language, the sooner we implant children the more effective they will be in learning and using spoken language. Giving young children they tools that they need to succeed in a oral education setting if this is the decision of the parents

http://curriculum.usc.edu/md_phd_journal/fall_2005/dr_segil-dr_friedman_12-5-05a.pdf

Regeneration of Hair Cells in the Ear

Currently in the testing phases on animals (mammals)

This is the first demonstration and still very much in the beginning phases—is this the future of hearing loss advances in students with d/hh?

The world of Deaf InfantsThe world of Deaf Infants

A longitudinal research study that Talks about the changes in screening newborns, mothers and babies as well As facts and figures About deafness.

http://aslthinktank.com/files/TOMCI.pdf

Theory-of-mind development in oral deaf children with cochlear implants or

conventional hearing aids

Talks about how implants can substantially increase auditory accuracy, but there are often times still problems with socializing with hearing peers

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45:6 (2004), pp 1096–1106

http://thebigdreamsproject.sharepointspace.com/AT/Deaf%20or%20Hard%20of%20Hearing/VocabTutor.pdf

Computer-Assisted Vocabulary Acquisition: The CSLU Vocabulary

Tutor in Oral-Deaf Education

Technology used to assist in literacy scores amount deaf and hard of hearing students to potentially increase test scores

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 8:2 Spring 2003

http://www.deafnessresearch.org.uk/Detecting%20hearing%20impairment%20in%20premature%20babies+2800.twl

Multiple Research Articles put out by the UK to address hearing loss in babies and young

children

A great place to go for parents and educators that is accessible and helps to clear up questions related to hearing loss in a clean to the point articles. While it is put out by the UK the topics and information are still very much relevant to the

US

◦ Detecting hearing impairment in premature babies◦ Possible link between hearing disorder and dyslexia or learning disability◦ Improving hearing aid fitting in children◦ Comparing the benefits of bilateral and unilateral cochlear implants in children◦ The optimum age for cochlear implantation in children◦ Diagnostic tests for children with auditory processing disorder◦ Understanding auditory learning disabilities◦ Central auditory processing and learning◦ Spatial listening with cochlear implants◦ ETC, ETC ETC

Higher Education for Deaf Students: Research Priorities in the New Millennium

Harry Lang-2002An article about how students face barriers

when it comes to gaining information within the classroom setting, and how we can change this as classroom teachers to be more effective in enhancing academic success.

J. Deaf Stud. Deaf Educ. (2002) 7 (4): 267-280. doi: 10.1093/deafed/7.4.267

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/03/010307070929.htm

Baldi

A 3D computerized tutor that helps profoundly deaf children with conversational skills, it shows student how to understand AND produce speech sounds.

Books In PrintBooks In Print

http://users.ccewb.net/lonerock/hearmemo/oraldeaf.htm

Oral Deaf-Living in the Mainstream of Society

9 book titles that are about or from oral-

deaf adultsProvides great oral-deaf role models for

children

http://pajka.blogspot.com/2007/02/106-and-counting-adolescent-literature.html

Deaf Characters198 + books that have deaf characters

◦ Juvenile (early chapter books- some with illustrations)◦ Middle (chapter books)◦ Teen to Crossover (adult book content with young adult

characters)◦ Graphic Novels & Comics

◦All the books are color coded by title on the website

Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and EducatorsParents and Educators

Covers a wide variety of topics including what is the best environment for the home and school for a child that is d/hh•Implants•Mental health•Integration•What is important to the child? To the parents? And to the educators? Working together to make the right choice in a unique situation.

http://library.rit.edu/guides/deaf-studies/deaf-literature-sampler-hh-late-deafened-oral.html

Deaf LiteratureFrom RIT librariesNumerous books (not all on oral

education) that show experience through the eyes of people living with a hearing loss

Different approaches and viewpoints on life from a d/hh perspective

Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking Birth to Six

Helping parents and educators prompt speaking and listening in children during the critical years for language development.

Hearing Aid HandbookHearing Aid Handbook

Product lines “at a glance”

Different manufactures and what products they have, how they function, the warranties provided on the materials- A go to book when a teacher is stumped on trouble shooting, parts

Order online at Amazon for approximately $30.00

Your Child's Hearing Loss: A Guide for Parents

A great resource for parents-- from a mother with a daughter who has a hearing loss. Everything a parent would need to know from coping with the idea of having a child with a hearing loss to the technology that is used for such children. Very parent friendly and accessible language.

Debby Waldman (Author), Jackson Roush (Author)

School Professionals Working With Children With Cochlear Implants

14 chapters that take readers from the initial implantation to what is expected in the future for students living and attending school with the use of a cochlear implant.

What kind of speech is expected?

What will a noisy classroom do to the child when it comes to learning?

Mapping

Supporting communication with sign.

http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Oral-Deaf-Fourteen-Models/dp/0786412666

Oral Deaf14 different perspectives that show the

complexities of living with a hearing loss—from a d/hh perspective in the “mainstream setting”

Helping Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students to Use Spoken Language: A Guide for Educators and Families

Effective techniques for working with students with a hearing loss in a manner that fits their unique needs and also allows the teacher to succeed and make gains.

Web Resources Web Resources

http://www.communicationconnects.com/articles/HearingImpairedChild.pdf

http://www.hearing.com.au/digitalAssets/8911_1241584786681_Hearing-impaired-child-in-the-classroom.pdf

Guidelines for the Classroom Teacher

A nice printable flyer to help general education understand the needs of students with a hearing loss within the classroom setting.

http://cochlearimplantonline.com/site/?page_id=609

Cochlear Implants

A great website that really targets all aspects of implants for educators, parents and students

Life Experiences Failures Options

http://www.harriscomm.comhttp://www.harriscomm.com

Harris Communications

A magazine put out full or products and resources for deaf and hard of hearing people.

Hearing aid cleaning suppliesPersonal equipmentGifts Resources (books)

http://www.hear-it.org/index.dsphttp://www.hear-it.org/index.dsp

Hear itA website that gets at daily lifeYou can test your own hearingFacts and figures Sound samples of hearing lossA lot of really good really useful

information for parents, educators and anyone working with students that have a hearing loss

http://www.listeningforlife.com/http://www.listeningforlife.com/index.htmlindex.html

Listening For Life

A nice website that describes auditory therapy for students that are d/hh

Provides many internet links for oral education

How do parents and educators need to be involved and what can be expected from the child

http://712educators.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ/http://712educators.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&zTi=1&sdn=712educators&cdn=education&tm=13&gps=Ya&zTi=1&sdn=712educators&cdn=education&tm=13&gps=177_578_985_633&f=20&tt=14&bt=1&bts=0&st=23&zu=http177_578_985_633&f=20&tt=14&bt=1&bts=0&st=23&zu=http%3A//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/hearimpair/toc.htm%3A//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/hearimpair/toc.htm

Hard of Hearing and Deaf Students:A Resource Guide to Support

Classroom Teachers

Great tip, suggestions and strategies to working with deaf and hard of hearing students in the

classroom setting—what can you expect!?

http://www.deafchildren.org/http://www.deafchildren.org/default.aspxdefault.aspx

American Society for Deaf Children

Provides information for deaf camps that children can attend

Provides a parents-helping-parents network for support

Laws and how they apply to d/hh students

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/speechandlanguage.aspvoice/speechandlanguage.asp

National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders

What exactly is speech and language and how do you know if your child has a hearing loss? Tons of great information to provide for parents such as a checklist of benchmarks with hearing, research for educators and professionals

http://http://www.hearingexchange.com/blogswww.hearingexchange.com/blogs

Hearing Loss BlogA website that allows people to connect

via forumsExternal links to resourcesDeaf/ hard of hearing in the news

http://www.cochlear.com/files/http://www.cochlear.com/files/assets/Speech_Sounds_Intro.pdfassets/Speech_Sounds_Intro.pdf

Speech Sound- A guide for parents and Professionals

A nice resource that is easy to read and targets the majority of common speech sounds in children. An overview of speech sounds that integrates audition, speech, language, literacy and cognition in children. The hand out targets how to use speech sounds, what to expect form the child and how to track progress.

Lot of nice external links to help assist with the speech sound production in d/hh students.

Educator Tools Educator Tools

Games for listening, language and Games for listening, language and speechspeech

Designed for children 5 years old and younger

Activities that can be used at home or school such as books, puppets, games and iron on transfers for objects such as pillows, and backpacks.

Progresses in difficulty to meet the needs of the child

Activities stimulate phonemic awareness and speech recognition

Order online at http://www.adcohearing.com/product2130.html $89.95

http://oraldeafed.org/materials/http://oraldeafed.org/materials/index.htmlindex.html

Oral Education Resources

Can go on and order information that can be presented as a packet to parents

Can order as many as are needed for FREE and are also provided in different language to accommodate cultural differences

Free shipping

http://http://www.advancedbionics.com/www.advancedbionics.com/UserFiles/File/3-01004-B-UserFiles/File/3-01004-B-1_ColoringBook-English-FNL.pdf1_ColoringBook-English-FNL.pdf

Coloring Book for Kids

Uses the character of “Bionic Buddy” to explain the process of getting a cochlear implant. The testing, the surgery and the implant its self—Very cute!

From Silence to Sound From Silence to Sound

A 27 year old man undergoes cochlear implant surgery, watch for hand as he experience sound for the first time. Great resource to share with students or parents

http://www.educationworld.com/http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues073.shtmla_issues/issues073.shtml

Reducing Noise in the Classroom with new standards.

There is a link through research about noise and poor academics in the classroom—not only will this benefit everyone but above all oral deaf children learning to LISTEN.

http://www.oraldeafed.org/http://www.oraldeafed.org/movies/dsh.htmlmovies/dsh.html

Oral Education Resources Cont

The videos from the kits can be watched online for free with out having to have them sent to a home or school.

Hear and Now Hear and Now

After 65 years of silence a deaf couple decides to get cochlear implants. A great way to understand the emotions and decisions attracted to the potentially life changing event of getting a cochlear implants. Follow the couple with home videos and behind the scenes in this moving documentary. A great learning tool for students as well as educators to talk about he decisions and the steps that have to be taken before and after the surgery.

http://www.hsdc.org/http://www.hsdc.org/

Hearing Speech and Deafness Center

Resources for early childhood educations as well ad d/hh services, audiology and speech and language services.

Ask an audiologist questions about children's hearing loss as well as find out physical referral information

Cochlear Implant Auditory Cochlear Implant Auditory Training Guide with CDsTraining Guide with CDs

Language activities for students ages 5 and up with cochlear implants

Cds allow for activities that can be reproduced that can be printed in color—also listening tasks

Placement test that allow the teacher/ therapist to follow the path that the student needs to achieve at a level that just right for them.

Order on-line at http://www.adcohearing.com/product2132.html

$120.00

http://http://www.cochlearamericas.com/www.cochlearamericas.com/Support/2367.aspSupport/2367.asp

Cochlear Implant SupportAssessmentsBenchmarksTroubleshooting CICI supportVideos that can be bought as “workshops”

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Bionic Buddy Plush toyBionic Buddy Plush toy

Learning tool for students to how understand cochlear implants

comes with sound processors (ear and body)

cablehead piece

Order online at http://www.adcohearing.com/product576.html

$44.95

Parent Friendly ResourcesParent Friendly Resources

http://www.evdcweb.org/http://www.evdcweb.org/index.htmlindex.html

Equal Choice for Deaf Children

Step by step of the emotional effect of accepting a hearing loss in children.

Very user friendly, real, and to the point

http://www.deafchildren.org/resources/http://www.deafchildren.org/resources/12_ASDC%20-%20Article%20-%20Decision12_ASDC%20-%20Article%20-%20Decision%20Making.pdf%20Making.pdf

Helpful hints for making the right choice

A short article that helps parents understand how to sort through, and pick out the right program form their young child with a hearing loss—being pulled in many directions can be a challenge and parents may often times second guess their choice.

http://http://www.auditoryverbaltraining.com/www.auditoryverbaltraining.com/ha-ci.htmha-ci.htm

Advantages & Disadvantages: Hearing Aids vs. Cochlear Implants for Those with Severe

Hearing Loss

Allows parents to see the positives and negatives of amplification in a unbiased fashion. Nice bulleted fashion that is easy to read and accessible.

http://www.nhfv.org/files/http://www.nhfv.org/files/Books_Deaf3.pdfBooks_Deaf3.pdf

Books

A nice list of books that parents can read with their children◦All the characters have a hearing loss and

many of them have/get cochlear implants or hearing aids

◦Very printer friendly

Speaking for Myself: A Film About Deaf Children Learning to Speak

A 10 minute video that shows how parents and educators can work together to get deaf children to speak through oral education.

http://www.helpkidshear.org/http://www.helpkidshear.org/index.htmlindex.html

Help Kids HearFacts and figuresResources“10 Reasons Why it can be Advantageous

to Have a Hearing Impaired Child”And a section just for the KIDS!

http://www.entnet.org/http://www.entnet.org/HealthInformation/HealthInformation/childHearingLoss.cfmchildHearingLoss.cfm

Get the Facts

Fact about hearing loss ad put out by ear Nose and Throat specialist. Targeting the difficult questions that parents might have such as “will my child live a normal life?”

http://www.speech-language-http://www.speech-language-development.com/speech-therapy-development.com/speech-therapy-games.htmlgames.html

Speech and Language at home

While not directly deaf and hard of hearing specific, there are some great games, ways to practices, and what to expect as a parent while working on speech at home.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/eyes/hear.html#general/eyes/hear.html#

Hearing Evaluation In Children

A nice website all about kids health, hearing and the first few years of life when it comes to hearing. How to detect a hearing loss, what are the different types of hearing loss

http://www.ncbegin.org/index.phphttp://www.ncbegin.org/index.php

Meeting the Needs of Families

Communication options◦Videos provided◦Laws◦Communication options

◦Technology