While inclusive stories are useful for all children, they’re especially beneficial for children with hearing loss who are being educated in mainstream classrooms.
Clarke alum Austin is on track to graduate early, and he is doing so with an eye toward saving money and the help of his excellent time-management skills.
The hierarchy of auditory skills consists of a series of skills that a child must master—in order—to learn to listen. The four rungs on the ladder are detection, discrimination, identification and comprehension.
Families and educators are sometimes skeptical of the idea of providing services remotely to children with hearing loss. But Clarke’s history in this area has proven those fears to be unfounded.
As students who are deaf or hard of hearing settle into their classrooms each fall, an acoustic assessment of these spaces is key to helping them thrive.