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http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/

Provides information and many useful resources for parents and teachers about how to support children with hearing loss and encourage their success.

http://www.betterhearing.org/hearingpedia/hearing-loss-resources

Provides many resources for people with hearing impairments and their families. There are links for advocacy resources, adult support groups, scholarships, employment and wellness and many more.

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http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/hearingloss/parentsguide/hearingloss/index.html

Provides parents with information about intervention services that are available for children with hearing loss.

http://www.mychildwithoutlimits.org/understand/hearing-loss/helping-children-with-hearing-loss/

Provides parents with a variety of information about hearing loss, such as causes, diagnosing, treatment, and prevention.

http://www.agbell.org/Landing.aspx?id=549

Provides parents with information and resources to help support their child with hearing loss. Provides useful imformation about early intervention as well as tips on empowering children to succeed.

https://www.noisyplanet.nidcd.nih.gov/parents/too-loud-too-long

Provides parents with information about how to protect their children's hearing.

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Tips for Creating a Good Listening Environment in the Classroom

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Is your classroom too noisy? Here are some simple ways to make the room quieter.

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http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Classroom-Acoustics/

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Creating-a-Good-Listening-Environment-in-the-Classroom/

These two websites provide information about how classroom acoustics influence students with hearing loss' learning and provides tips on how to create a good listening environment in the classroom.

http://www.teachmag.com/archives/130

Provides ideas for adaptations and strategies to use in the classrooms to support students with hearing impairments.

http://www.hearinglikeme.com/teaching-a-child-with-hearing-loss/

Provides information to help teachers better understand what hearing loss means and offer tips to help support students with hearing loss in the classroom.

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Face the student: Always keep your face visible when communicating with the student and make sure not to cover your mouth when speaking , this may restrict students from hearing or reading lips if necessary. Avoid speaking while writing on the board and speaking while walking.
Articulate: Speak clearly and slow down speech when necessary, but do not over exaggerate your enunciation. Don't shout and repeat or rephrase when necessary to ensure students understanding.
Write things out: Write out daily schedule as well as important terms and concepts on the board. Provide students with written lesson notes beforehand.
Create a good Listening Environment: Reduce necessary background noise, such as noisy equipment that is not being used. Sit student with hearing loss near the teacher and front of the room to allow for better accessibility.

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Also known as hearing impairment , refers to the partial or absolute inability to hear. Hearing loss can  occur in one or or in both ears.

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Conductive

Occurs when sounds is not productively running through the outer ear canal to the ear drums and the small bones of the middle ear.

Results in mild to moderate hearing loss

Usually causes reduced sound levels or reduces the ability to hear quiet sounds.

Some causes: Fluid in the middle ear from colds, ear infection, impacted earwax,  punctured ear drums, malformation or absence of the outer ear, ear canal, or middle ear structures.

May be corrected by surgery or medically with hearing aids in most cases.

Sensorineural

Occurs when inner ear or auditory nerves have been damaged

Results in reduction in the ability to hear quiet sounds and sounds may sound muted or unclear even when it is loud enough to hear.

Some causes:  head trauma, exposure to loud noise, genetic or hereditary hearing loss, aging, virus or disease, tumors

Most cases cannot be corrected medically or surgically

Mixed

Refers to a combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss in which damage is present in the outer or middle ear and in the inner ear or auditory nerve

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My son Ezekiel is 12 years old. He suffers from conductive hearing loss caused by an untreated ear infection at the age of 5. One day, Ezekiel had gotten water in his ear from swimming in the pool which resulted in an ear infection unbeknownst to me.This ear infection then caused damage to the structures of his middle ear which resulted in 40% of permanent hearing loss in both ears . Ezekiel's kindergarten teacher noticed that he wasn't paying attention in class and would often not respond when his name was called. She suggested that we take him to the doctor to have his hearing checked and that is when we were told he had permanent hearing loss.