Learning to be Buddies

Each of the following links will take you to a different website. 

Cooperative, confident and friendly: Enhancing the social skills of preschoolers

This is a great Pdf document that give some simple hints and tips when working with children with a range of different disabilities, including hearing impairments.  They first identify the challenges the child may face, then they identify some simple strategies you may use.

Management of your child’s hearing impairment

A pdf fact file from the Australian Hearing website.  There are a number of other fact sheets on this site that may be helpful.

Hearing impairment and school children

This is from mydr.com.au.  It provides a good explanation of hearing impairments, as well as some suggestions about how to support children with hearing impairments in schools.

Children with hearing loss

This is from the Parenting and Child Health website (from the US).  It provides a great explanation of hearing impairments, and provides links and suggestions about resources as well.

Cochlear implants

If you want to know more about cochlear implants, then this is a good site to visit.

Make sure you leave me a comment to let me know if these sites have been useful to you….