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Below are additional resources used for information:

Help Your Child Develop Social Skills And Make Friends. (2023). Hearing First Blog - Hearing First - Hearing First. https://www.hearingfirst.org/b/blog/posts/help-your-child-develop-social-skills-and-make-friends

National Deaf Center. (2023, February 27). Accommodations 101 - National Deaf Center. https://nationaldeafcenter.org/resource-items/accommodations-101/

Sec. 300.8 (c) (3) - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (2017, May 2). Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. https://sites.ed.gov/idea/regs/b/a/300.8/c/3

What is Hearing Loss in Children? | CDC. (2021, June 16). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/hearingloss/facts.html

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Below are some resources for parents who have children who are deaf or hard of hearing:

Hands & Voices is a community that provides many resources for parents who have deaf kids. Regardless of the questions you may have, Hands & Voices has the answers or support to lead you in the right direction. They have articles on socialization, support in school, and support in other languages.

Hands & Voices :: About Us. (2023). https://www.handsandvoices.org/about/why.htm

A.G. Bell Association for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing also has a lot of support for parents with kids who are deaf or hard of hearing. They have resources that explain hearing loss, give help on early intervention options, as well as explaining communication options.

AG Bell > Families. (2023). https://www.agbell.org/Families

Lastly, the National Association of the Deaf has information for parents in every step of the process. They have parent-to-parent support as well as speech development information. They also understand they no decision you make now will be the decision that is right forever. Things change, and so will the help and support you need as your child grows up.

National Association of the Deaf - NAD. (2023). https://www.nad.org/resources/early-intervention-for-infants-and-toddlers/information-for-parents/

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Below are resources for Educators and Teachers of students who are deaf:

The American Society of Deaf Children has information for educators of deaf children. They recognize that students who are deaf learn differently than their hearing peers and have more of a challenge keeping up. They post articles all the time for educator of deaf children and give advice for helping them the best you can.

American Society for Deaf Children. (2020, December 8). Educators - American Society for Deaf Children. https://deafchildren.org/educators/

Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss is another great resource for teachers of children who are deaf or suffer from hearing loss. They give advice and support teachers with materials to help these children. They even have their own products that help teachers with students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss. (2023, March 13). Teaching Materials For Deaf Students or Hearing Loss students. Supporting Success for Children With Hearing Loss |. https://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/about/

Lastly, CSD Learns has resources that are "deaf-made" to provide "deaf-led education". CSD Learns provides top resources by having the educators be people who are also hard of hearing or deaf themselves. This gives them an insightful look into what could have made it easier for them growing up and getting an education and give that to the kids growing up today.

CSD Learns: Resources for Deaf Education. (2023). CSDLearns. https://csdlearns.com/

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Behavior Management and Social Strategies

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Behavior Management and Social Strategies

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In order to facilitate social interaction for deaf or hard of hearing children it is important to not hold them back. Start them out young with interacting with other children. Kids who are deaf or hard of hearing benefit from interacting with kids their age and figuring out how to communicate with them. They have to figure out how to get their own needs met. Making sure they are in calm, quiet environments also helps children take in their surroundings better. Meeting other kids who are in the same circumstances as them also helps them feel less alone and gives them someone to talk to that is going through the same thing.

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According to the National Deaf Center some adaptations and accommodations for those who are deaf include Interpreters, Speech-to-Text Services, Assistive Listening Systems, Note Takers, Captioned Media, Testing Accommodations, and Remote Services.

The benefits of some of these adaptations and accommodations are:

Interpreters: facilitate communication between a deaf and hearing person. i.e., ASL interpretation, tactile interpretation, and oral transliteration

Speech-to-Text Services: auditory information is translated into text in real-time.

Note Takers: students receive notes from a trained note taker and split their attention between the note taker and learning (no differently than if the child was writing it themselves)

Captioned Media: gives students the opportunities for pre-recorded videos to be accessible by reading what is being spoken in the videos.

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Identification Procedures and Service Delivery

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Identification Procedures and Service Delivery

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Students who are deaf, most of time have been identified by their parents before school starts or before they become old enough for school.

In order to get a diagnosis for deafness and complete identification you can complete a hearing screening which can tell if a child might have hearing loss or be deaf. Hearing screenings are easy and not painful, they are very short and usually only take a few minutes.

Student who are deaf most of the time go to special schools that have teachers who teach all deaf kids. In other circumstances deaf children may have aids who go around their public school with them, who translates for them.

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Some common characteristics of deafness can vary depending on the age of the child. Some signs in babies and young children are listed below according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC:

Signs in Babies:

Does not startle at loud noises.

Does not turn to the source of a sound after 6 months of age.

Does not say single words, such as “dada” or “mama” by 1 year of age.

Turns head when he or she sees you but not if you only call out his or her name. This sometimes is mistaken for not paying attention or just ignoring but could be the result of a partial or complete hearing loss.

Seems to hear some sounds but not others.

Signs in Young Children:

Speech is delayed.

Speech is not clear.

Does not follow directions. This sometimes is mistaken for not paying attention or just ignoring but could be the result of a partial or complete hearing loss.

Often says, “Huh?”

Turns the TV volume up too high.

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The disability I choose to create a fact sheet for is Deafness. According to the Individuals with Disabilities’ Act of IDEA, Deafness is “a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.” Some acronyms for deafness or some commonly said/known language around deafness is Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHoH), Hearing Impaired (HI).