Tutorial Resources

Hearing Loss Management

Finding a Pediatric Audiologist

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Practice Portal: Permanent Childhood Hearing Loss

Early Hearing Detection and Intervention – Pediatric Audiology Links to Services

National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management. (2016). Diagnostic Audiology

Middle Ear Infections

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

• Ear Infections (Otitis Media)

Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss

• Ear Infections and Learning

Monitoring Hearing

FAQ Parents and Hearing Aids

• Audiology Online: What Parents Should Know About Hearing Loss: Pointers for Parents
• EHDI PALS: Questions to ask when you are at the hearing aid appointment
• Healthy Hearing: Hearing aids for children

Hands & Voices

• Virtual Waiting Room

Signs of Hearing Difficulty

Signs of Difficulty: Hearing Tracking Sheet [PDF]

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

• Effects of Hearing Loss on Development

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Hearing Loss in Children

Test Assistant: Play Audiometry

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

• Practice Portal: Permanent Childhood Hearing Loss: Audiologic Test Battery-Developmental Age of 3-to-5 years

Test Assistant: VRA

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

• Practice Portal: Permanent Childhood Hearing Loss: Audiologic Test Battery-Developmental Age of 6-to-36 months

Understanding the Audiogram

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

• Childhood Hearing Loss [PDF]
• Type, Degree, and Configuration of Hearing Loss [PDF]

Hear On

Audiogram Symbols

Hearing Device Management

Behavior Management

Behavior Basics [PDF]

Behavior Management Glossary [PDF]

Behavior Tracking Sheet [PDF]

Effective Commands [PDF]

The ABCs of Behavior [PDF]

Time Out [PDF]

Hearing Aid Batteries

Battery storage and safety

Poison Control Battery safety tips

Hearing Aid Care Guide

Daily Hearing Aid Check [PDF]

Hearing Aid Settings

Hearing Aid Fitting and Evaluation for infants

Hearing Aid Use

Wearing Hearing Aids Infographic [PDF]

Having trouble keeping your child’s hearing devices on? Click on these links for some options that can help!

• Hearing Aid/Cochlear Implant Headband
• Hearing Aid/Cochlear Implant Hat for Infants

HearOn DataLogging

• An introduction to the data logging feature within hearing aids and discussion of it's value as a tool for goal setting.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

• Hearing Aids for Children

Family Wellbeing

Building Positive Partnerships

National Institutes for Children’s Health Quality

• Powerful Partnerships: A Handbook for Families and Providers Working Together to Improve Care

Hands & Voices

• Guide for parent-professional partnerships [PDF]
• Guide for understanding best practice recommendations for children with unilateral hearing loss
• Virtual Waiting Room

Bullying

Bullying Resources: Federal Government Website. StopBullying.Gov.

PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center: Resources

People Hearing Better: Bullies and Hearing Differences. Web article.

Hands & Voices

• O.U.R Project

Coping and Planning

The CARE Project

• The CARE Project is a nonprofit organization that emotionally supports families who have a member with hearing loss.

The Hearing Review

• This is an article on the stages of coping with a child’s hearing loss diagnosis.

Oticon

• This is a resource page for raising a child with hearing loss. It contains links to informational resources.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• This page contains basic information on children with hearing loss.

Hands & Voices

• Fostering Joy Project

Developing New Routines

The 3 R’s of Habit Change: How To Start New Habits That Actually Stick, James Clear

How to Build a New Habit: A Brief 5 Step Beginners Guide To Change, Mayo Oshin

The Magic Ingredient Is You

Learn How to Expose Your Child to Language Throughout the Day [PDF]

Activities:

• Bedtime Business [PDF]
• Letter of the Day [PDF]
• Bed and Bath Songs [PDF]

Making Connections

Facebook Groups

• Parents of Deaf/HOH Children
• AG Bell
• Hands & Voices
• Hearing First
• Parents of Children with Cochlear Implants

Websites

• Hear to Learn on-line community
• AG Bell supports parents of children with hearing loss who listen and talk. You can find out if your state has an AG Bell chapter by visiting their website
• Hand & Voices. This is an organization that supports families of children with hearing loss. You can find out if your state has a chapter by visiting their website
• Hearing First has an on-line community for parents. Visit their website to join the community
• Parent to Parent USA

Questions to Ask the Audiologist

Question Prompt List

• This link provides you with a list of questions that may need to be addressed in appointments with your audiologist

Siblings

Hands & Voices

• Siblings [PDF]

Deaf Children Australia

• Brothers and Sisters of Deaf Children [PDF]

Social Development

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Milestones in Action
• Milestone Checklist [PDF]

Illinois Early Learning Project

• Children's Social Competence Checklist

Pinterest

• Social Emotional Activities for Parents and Children

Practice Social Skills at Home with this Activity [PDF]

Stigma & Self-Advocacy

Canadian Hearing Society

Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss

Self-Advocacy for DHH Students

Activities:

• Crazy Container [PDF]
• Copycat [PDF]
• Fruit Loop Rainbow [PDF]

Take Time to Renew

Everyday Health: 10 Tips to Help You De-Stress

Mental Floss: 7 De-Stressing Strategies That Work

University of Missouri: Building Strong Families Warning Signs of Stress

University of Missouri: Building Strong Families Activities and Tips to Manage Stress

Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: Relaxation Exercises

Child Development Institute: Stress Management for Parents

Teaching Others

Involve Family Members in Fun Language Promoting Activities!

• Spider Web Walking [PDF]
• Pronoun Play Time [PDF]
• Dinner Jar Activity [PDF]

Listening & Language

Auditory Sandwich

Central Institute for the Deaf

• Further explanation of auditory sandwich

Auditory Sandwich [PDF]

Activities:

• Let’s Eat [PDF]
• Animals Everywhere [PDF]
• Space Counting and Graphing [PDF]
• All About Coins [PDF]
• Dinosaurs Count [PDF]

Cued Speech

National Cued Speech Association

Cue College- Learn to Cue Online

Cued Speech Videos and Demos

Cued Speech: Learning to Use Handshapes that Stand for Sound

CDC Learning A Language: Different Language Approaches

Effects of Hearing Loss on Development: American Speech Hearing Association

ASCD Learn. Teach. Lead. This reading explains the importance of phonemic awareness

Practice the Phonemes in Your Child’s Name [PDF]

Read to Me

Hearing First

• Reading Aloud: The Road to Literacy

John Tracy Clinic

• Reading Regularly to Young Children with Hearing Loss [PDF]

Hearing Health Matters

• This link has suggestions for reading at various stages of development

Make Reading Fun with These Activities!

Combine Reading and Music

Sabotage

Sabotage [PDF]

Central Institute for the Deaf

• This video explains other ways that you can use the sabotage method Use the Sabotage Method Throughout the Day

Self-Talk and Parallel-Talk

Self and Parallel Talk [PDF]

Activities:

• Banana Break [PDF]
• Feed the Monkey [PDF]

Teaching Your Child How to Listen

Boys Town National Research Hospital

• Supporting Auditory Skills Development at Home

Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss

• Auditory Skill Hierarchy [PDF]

Hear to Learn webinar

Hands & Voices

• Parent Tip Sheets

Wait Time

Wait Time [PDF]

Activities:

• Space Jam [PDF]
• Firetruck Following Directions [PDF]
• Weatherman [PDF]
• Stick It [PDF]

Perspectives

Hearing Loss in the Classroom (FM Systems)

Audiology Online

• This site provides additional information about FM systems

Leader Live

• FM Systems vs. Sound Fields

BabyHearing.org

• This links outlines other environments besides school where FM systems can be used

Partnerships: Professional’s Perspective

Ida Institute – Transitions Management

Phonak – Childhood Hearing Loss Question Prompt List (QPL) for Parents

Hearing First – Parent & Professional Partnerships

John Tracy Clinic - Making the Most of Your Child’s Audiology Appointments [PDF]

Clinical Skills

Counseling: Assessing and Addressing Barriers

Guide to Counseling Resources [PDF]

Counseling Terminology [PDF]

Counseling Performance Feedback Form [PDF]

Counseling Action Steps [PDF]

Counseling: Basic Concepts

Guide to Counseling Resources [PDF]

Counseling Terminology [PDF]

Counseling Performance Feedback Form [PDF]

Counseling Action Steps [PDF]

Harvard Business Review

• What Great Listeners Actually Do

Counseling: Basic Skills

Guide to Counseling Resources [PDF]

Counseling Terminology [PDF]

Counseling Performance Feedback Form [PDF]

Counseling Action Steps [PDF]

Counseling: Mental Health Referrals

Guide to Counseling Resources [PDF]

Counseling Terminology [PDF]

Counseling Performance Feedback Form [PDF]

Counseling Action Steps [PDF]

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Suicide Prevention Resource Center

Counseling: Shared Planning

Guide to Counseling Resources [PDF]

Counseling Terminology [PDF]

Counseling Performance Feedback Form [PDF]

Counseling Action Steps [PDF]

Counseling: Sharing Difficult News

Guide to Counseling Resources [PDF]

Counseling Terminology [PDF]

Counseling Performance Feedback Form [PDF]

Counseling Action Steps [PDF]

Measuring eSRT: Advanced Bionics

Audiology Online

• Cochlear Implants-Considerations in Programming for the Pediatric Population

Measuring eSRT: Cochlear

Audiology Online

• Cochlear Implants-Considerations in Programming for the Pediatric Population

Measuring eSRT: MedEL

Audiology Online

• Cochlear Implants-Considerations in Programming for the Pediatric Population

Question Prompt List for Audiologists

Question Prompt List

Getting Started with Hearing Aids: A Remote Parent Education and Support Program

Provider Guide

Open Access Journal Article: eHealth parent education for hearing aid management: a pilot randomized controlled trial, International Journal of Audiology