Essential in Ensuring Access to Services: A Teacher of the Deaf

Autor/in	Stinson, Heather
Titel	Essential in Ensuring Access to Services: A Teacher of the Deaf
Quelle	In: Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 14 (2013), S.48-51 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1544-6751
Schlagwörter	Screening Tests; Hearing Impairments; Hearing (Physiology); Access to Education; Preschool Children; Student Needs; Deafness; Inclusion; Early Intervention; Teacher Role; Teacher Collaboration; Regular and Special Education Relationship; Parent Participation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Screening-Verfahren; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Gehör; Hören; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Inklusion; Lehrerrolle; Lehrerkooperation; Elternmitwirkung
Abstract	With the onset of universal newborn hearing screenings and early identification and amplification, children with hearing loss are able to receive education in mainstream classrooms as early as preschool. According to a 2011 report from the U. S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 52.6 percent of preschool-age children with hearing loss in the United States are educated at least part of the school day in their local preschool classrooms; this increases to 86.3 percent for school-age children (GAO, 2011). The teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing is critical to effective inclusion. Only this teacher is in a position to build relationships with classroom teachers and service providers and to provide ongoing support for parents and their children. Successful inclusion, of course, also includes the willingness of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) team members to actively promote inclusion through a team approach and a willingness to understand, monitor, and use assistive technology (Eriks-Brophy et al., 2006). In this article, the author describes one 4-year-old boy's life with multiple developmental delays and the services he receives from the occupational therapist, physical therapist, and speech-language pathologist employed by his school district as well as his work with a vision specialist and a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, both contracted through local agencies outside of the school. In addition to working with the young boy individually, the teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing works with his family and other service providers to develop communication goals and coordinate the activities of the other professionals. In this way, his language goals are incorporated into his occupational, physical, and vision therapies, and into the instructional practices in his general education classroom. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, KS 3600, Washington, DC 20002. Tel: 800-526-9105; Tel: 202-651-5340; Fax: 202-651-5708; e-mail: odyssey@gallaudet.edu; Web site: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10