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...

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...

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...

 by: Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech  The Hear Me Out blog will now be available here, at Clarke’s new website!  Our redesigned, modern site is mobile-friendly and accessible with the same URL, clarkeschools.org. Visitors can easily request services and refer...

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....

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...