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...

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...

    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...

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...

    As itinerants, I’m sure we’ve all been asked this question by school teams. I also continue to see this question posted in forums and in Facebook groups. I’ve decided to answer it for you here. Get ready- it’s not...