Help for Teachers
Parents Should Remember!
 | There are 23 other smiling
faces in the class who are as important to their parents as your child
is to you.
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| Bring helpful, short articles about the child's problems for the
teacher to read.
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| Teachers have other problems too, ie. the
car, the dog died, as well as the photocopier.
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Teachers Should Remember!
| Learn the Ling Sounds Test, |
AH, EE, OU, SH, SS,
and a password, and use it to test the hearing equipment on the
child every time it is hooked up. If you are in Australia, you may add a
nasal M to the sounds.
| Do not ask the child "Can you hear
me?" The child will answer "yes"
Also the child will answer "yes" to a question including the
child's name. The "yes" is in response to the awareness of the
teacher's use of the child's name, and does not indicate the child
understands it all.
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| Do use the child's name to get attention
before giving instructions, also establish eye contact when possible.
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| Face the class while talking.
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| Repeat instructions.
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| Write homework on the board.
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Use an agenda book for homework and assignments.
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| If the child seems to have heard you and
goes on with an undesirable action, the child probably has not heard
you.
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| Always give the child the benefit of
doubt.
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| Do not attempt your own hearing test by
asking the child behind his back if he would like ice cream. If you have
been told the child has a hearing loss, he or she does. Do you have
degrees in audiology?
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| Do not test lip or speech reading skills
either. Most people are quite good at speechreading, and a hard of
hearing child is blessed if speechreading works.
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| The parents of a auditory/verbal child
need hours of language time every day with the child. So far, the school
systems have not really understood how demanding it is to teach a child
to talk, and at the same time are not providing adequate one-to-one
language during school hours. If this is the case, there is little time
left for homework.
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| Parents may not be able to explain a
concept
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If the Child is at School, the FM assitive
device must be on the Teacher
| A lariat mike is much less effective. If you are interested in having the
child hear as clearly as possible, use a head-mounted mike for the FM. |
| Answers to questions, and every important
comment should be repeated by the teacher into your head-mounted mike
for the FM. If this does not happen the hard of hearing child does not
hear half the communications in class. A pass- around mike is helpful
for class discussions.
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The hard of hearing child gets very tired.
To be hard of hearing is
not a natural state. We are asking the hard of hearing child to perform like a child without disabilities when we mainstream in school and life.
We ask the hard of hearing child to hear, to listen. The child gets tired, and the fantastically expensive equipment is often not at peak performance.
Any child in the classroom who has a hearing problem is already working
200% harder than any other child.
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