Objective
Explore the materials offered on the list below and share your favorite
materials on the discussion list.
Content Information
Materials Related to Hearing and Sight
- Hearing aid kit including batteries, battery tester, earmold wipes,
earmold cleaning supplies, spare tubes, scissors, hearing system checking
supplies, stethoscope or "button" to check aids
- Mini hearing aid check kits for classroom/school/clinic use including
batteriees, battery tester, earmold stethosope or "button"
to check aids
- Auditory training screen (An embroidery hoop with mesh material. It's
light and not too big.)
- Different types of hearing aids (old ones) and pictures of hearing
aid interiors
- Pictures of the ear and inside the ear
- Eye glass repair kit
- List of Web sites that demonstrate examples of hearing and vision
function, the parts of these sensory systems and other sensory related
information
Curriculum Materials
- Books - idiom workbooks, writing workbooks, multiple meaning books,reading
comprehension workbooks, short stories, and other materials to enhance
student skills and copies of text books
- Tests and evaluations to perform such as Brigance, OWLS, GATE, SKI*HI,
Stanford, Kendall, and Expressive and Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary
- Practice materials for statewide evaluations such as the FCAT
- Index cards for flash cards or games
- Small dry-erase boards, dry-erase markers, dry-erase erasers
- Stickers
- Dictionaries: ASL Dictionary, Handshape Dictionary, Picture Dictionary,
Multi-language Dictionary
- Play money and other manipulatives
- Calculator, ruler, protractor, and compass
- Junior versions of games
- Bingo boards
- "Teacher Tools" software to create practice sheets related
to student academic content
- Clip Art software
Resource Books
- The Art of Itinerant Teaching for Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing by Mary Deane Smith
- Deaf Culture: Our Way by Roy K. Holcomb, Samuel K. Holcomb, and Thomas
K. Holcomb, DawnSign Press (1994)
- Do You Hear Me? - Laughs for the Hard of Hearing by the Hard of Hearing
by Maxwell Schneider
- When Patrick Got Hearing Aids (Great to read to mainstream classes.)
- Let's Learn About Deafness (Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education
Center)
- There's A Hearing Impaired Child in My Class (Laurent Clerc National
Deaf Education Center)
Collaboration Activity
Option 1 - Share information about some materials that you could not
live without.
Option 2 - Share a strategy you use to stay organized, sane, and/or happy.
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