NCSA
The NCSA supports a community of cuers who have come together to promote language accessibility through Cued Speech. Some of us are native cuers. Some are parents of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) or need visual access to language. Some are professionals who work with those who are D/HH or need visual access to language.
The S.E.E. Center
The S.E.E. Center at ESC Region 13 provides quality training and support for those who want to learn or improve their Signing Exact English skills. We also offer ESSE training and testing for state certification of Educational Interpreters.
Signing Exact English
Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.
What is Early Intervention? (Video)
Parents have so many questions when their child who is deaf or hard of hearing is about to start LSL early intervention.
💬 What is early intervention?
💬 What should I expect?
💬 Where do intervention sessions occur?
💬 What kind of role do I play as a parent?
💬 Will my child be able to listen and talk?
If you are a parent with these questions, YOU ARE NOT ALONE! This video will answer what you’ve been craving to know about LSL early intervention and prepare your child to become a goal-getter - hitting all of those important milestones on their journey to listening and talking. Each LSL professional you work with is considered your partner on this journey.
Communication - A Parents Guide to Hearing Loss
There are many ways for you to explore and begin to build communication and language for your baby. Please talk with your baby's healthcare professionals for more communication ideas.
Cue College
The Cue College vision is to enable every deaf child to have easy and effective communication in the spoken language of the home and community, from infancy through adulthood, providing each with the necessary foundation for attaining age-appropriate language and literacy levels and full educational and career opportunities.
ASL Connect (YouTube Channel)
ASL Connect - We intend to be a central resource for learning ASL and about Deaf Culture online, with all content created by Deaf ASL-fluent scholars.
ASL Connect
ASL Connect aims to equip individuals to be lifelong learners through an equity-centered, immersive virtual learning environment from Deaf professionals with multicultural backgrounds, to transform the world for greater human CONNECTions.
ASL Connect welcomes people from diverse communities to CONNECT to the richness of American Sign Language and Deaf culture with the aspiration that they will be agents of change for equality and respect for the Deaf community.
Hear to Learn
The Utah State University Listening and Spoken Language program, Sound Beginnings, launched in 2007 to help children with hearing loss reach their potential for academic and life success. Since then, we have conducted multiple studies to better understand parent experiences and professional practices. We have also begun translating what we and others have learned into user friendly materials for parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as those who care for and work with them.
The Hear to Learn website was developed to house these resources, bring people together, and foster a community of learning. We have had the opportunity to work with many individuals - students, parents and other professionals, passionate in their desire to help children succeed. Many of whom are acknowledged by name on resources, materials, and publications.
We appreciate the creativity, expertise, and dedication of our USU graduate students, and thank them for their valuable contributions to this learning resource.
Hearing First
At Hearing First, we want all children to have the opportunity to take advantage of access to sound – to power their potential to be whatever they want to be.
Ears are the doorway to the brain and hearing is the foundational building block for children to listen and talk, become healthy readers, and do well in school. We know that early learning is critical to a child's language development and lifetime success. For children who are deaf or hard of hearing to have the same opportunities as their hearing peers and to capitalize on the early period for brain development, they must be able to take advantage of today's resources and technology to access sound.
Our mission is to help families ensure their child who is deaf or hard of hearing has opportunities to reach their full potential through listening and spoken language. We're here to support families through the critical early days and along their journey raising their child, whenever they have questions or just need to connect with someone.
Welcoming the Child with Hearing Loss into Child Care
Printable to give to day care providers to help the person providing child care to better understand the challenges and special needs of the child with hearing loss.
Cadre
CADRE's major emphasis is on encouraging the use of mediation, facilitation, and other collaborative processes as strategies for resolving disagreements between parents and schools about children's educational programs and support services. CADRE supports parents, educators, administrators, attorneys and advocates to benefit from the full continuum of dispute resolution options that can prevent and resolve conflict and ultimately lead to informed partnerships that focus on results for children and youth.
SEAM for School Success
Student Expectations for Advocacy & Monitoring Listening and Hearing Technology
A checklist of expectations showing expected participation/consistent skills by grade level.
Self Advocacy Skills for D/HH Students
This printable from ‘Audiology Outside the Box’ can help remind older students how to advocate and problem-solve.
Self Advocacy Apps
Apps are a convenient, brain-based, motivational learning strategy for parents and professionals working with students with hearing loss. Within our field there are multiple uses for apps such as language, literacy, auditory and self-advocacy skills development.
Hearing and Me Templates
A classroom resource that empowers kids of different ages to talk about their hearing loss. This PowerPoint template consists of about 30 slides that students with hearing loss can personalize to present to their classmates.
Hands & Voices Headquarters
Our national website is a wealth of information for families of deaf and hard of hearing children.