Communicating with Families at Each Stage of Mainstream Education
Families are an integral part of our educational support team in mainstream settings. Here are my tips for connecting with them as valued team members!
Divide and Conquer
As itinerant teachers of the deaf, we depend on our relationships with other professionals in school buildings to ensure comprehensive services for our students and carryover of skills. I try to co-treat regularly with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), reading teacher...
Rethinking Lunch Bunch
Lunch Bunch is a common accommodation for students with hearing loss. Typically, rather than eating lunch in a noisy cafeteria, a student with hearing loss and a few peers meet in a quiet space with an adult (often a teacher...
The Role of Tests
School is now in full swing and grades close for the first term in just a few short days here in Massachusetts! As that date comes closer, it is common for teachers to administer quizzes, interims, tests and summatives… the...
Why Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Need Teachers of the Deaf — Now More Than Ever
While COVID-19 has impacted education throughout the country, here in New England we were hopeful in the spring of 2021. Masks seemed to be working. Vaccines were rolling out. Enthusiasm was high in anticipation of a normal school year for...
Knowing When Extended School Year Support Is Necessary
It’s the time of year when things are starting to wrap up. As we enter spring IEP and transition meetings, I’m noticing a new trend—an unusual number of requests from parents for Extended School Year (ESY) academic summer support services....
Mobile-Friendly Spring Mainstream News Now Available!
The spring issue of Mainstream News, sponsored by Oticon, is now available online and mobile-friendly! Read about our favorite tech tools, the importance of having hearing technology serviced in the summer, how to plan a summer of enriching fun, why quality play matters so...
Looking Ahead To Fall
Despite the many ups and downs of this school year, we are moving right along! Spring IEP and planning meetings are being scheduled and teams have begun talking about the fall. While there are still many unknowns, using what we...
Our Students are Children First
There’s no denying it: the feeling of teacher burnout is real. Winter months are hard in New England in a regular school year, and the added stress of the constantly changing school models—remote to hybrid and back again—safety concerns...
Check out the Winter Issue of Mainstream News!
by: Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech The Winter issue of Mainstream News, sponsored by Oticon, is now available online! Read about learning regression and how to prevent it, learn best practices for a successful college search (particularly in a pandemic), understand the crucial partnership...
