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The Family Resource Group
March 10, 2023
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Heading to Spring 2023
We changed our clocks as we get ready for a new sesason. We hope you are seeing signs of spring. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at any time. To be sure that you continue to receive all future updates, or information, directly to your email address, sign up on the Family Resource Group mailing list.
Erin Campion
Family Resource Group Editor
Sensory Inclusive Performance
Checking the Hearing Aid
Want some help on checking your child's hearing aid? Watch this quick video series for great tips and easy steps! Your child can watch them too...or make their own!
Emailable Tips for Teachers
"TiPS- to email to preschool and kindergarten teachers to improve understanding of the needs of the student with hearing loss. Getting one tip at a time has been an effective strategy for implementation. Focusing on one strategy each week reduces anxiety and results in an improvement in best practice tECH-niques for their students with hearing loss. These early childhood tiPS- should be used in conjunction with the school-age tiPS-, also available through Teacher Tools Takeout." from Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss Teacher Tools Takeout
"TiPS- to email to Grade 1-8 teachers to improve understanding of the needs of the student with hearing loss. Getting one tip at a time has been an effective strategy for implementation. Focusing on one strategy each week reduces anxiety and results in an improvement in best practice tECH-niques for their students with hearing loss. Early childhood tiPS- are also available through Teacher Tools Takeout." from Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss Teacher Tools Takeout
Social Skills
Sometimes it is hard to see what skills our children have and what skills they need to grow. The Minnesota Social Skills Checklist for Students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing may be a good starting point to help start conversations and give support to schools, families, and students.
My ODP (Department of Human Services)
ODP has a "Communication And..." series that is available for your information. "The goal of this series is to provide information on how each diagnosis could impact communication and offer strategies to support effective communication."
You can enter as a guest and view all the information pages that they have available.
Resources: Communication and
Communication and Apraxia of Speech
Communication and ASD
Communication and Audio Processing
Communication and BPD
Communication and Cerebral Palsy
Communication and CHARGE Syndrome
Communication and Communication Disorder
Communication and Conduct Disorder_
Communication and Cornelia de lange
Communication and Cortical Visual Impairment
Communication and Deaf-BlindnesL
Communication and Down Syndrome
Communication and Dyslexia
Communication and FASD
Communication and Hearing Loss
Communication and Huntingtons Disease
Communication and Idiosyncratic Speech
Communication and Language Deprivation
Communication and Limited English Proficiency
Communication and Long COVID
Communication and Multiple Sclerosis
Communication and Parkinsons
Communication and PTSD
Communication and RAD
Communication and RETT Syndrome
Communication and Schizophrenia
Communication and Sensory Processing Disorder
Communication and Stroke
Communication and TBI
Communication and Tourette Syndrome
Communication and Usher Syndrome
Communication and Visual Impairments
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (PSD) Family Conference April 29
"The Family Resource Center at PSD is pleased to announce our second annual family conference:
"Thrive! Supporting Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children."
This conference is open to any families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 29th from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM at PSD! We have amazing workshop presenters lined up and we are especially honored to have Tia-Nikki Ivanko from the National Deaf Center as our Keynote Speaker. " Register by April 19, 2023!
Course for Developing Auditory Comprehension
Strategies to Develop Auditory Comprehension from Central Institute for the Deaf (CID).
Learn about auditory memory v. auditory comprehension, signs of poor auditory comprehension, goals and activities to support your students, considerations for teaching lessons and much more!
The mission of the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) is to support the efforts and initiatives of the Bureau of Special Education, and to build the capacity of local educational agencies to serve students who receive special education services.