Deaf and Hard of Hearing (dDHH)

What does your dDHH Team do at school?

• Provide easy school and home strategies to maximize dDHH student's auditory access to spoken language to contribute to their speech, language, and literacy development

• Provide resources to grow student's awareness and acceptance of their hearing differences

• Hearing equipment requests and troubleshooting issues with equipment

• Classroom observations to improve the student's and teacher's use of hearing equipment and improve the student's self advocacy

• Individual meetings with student

• Family-school meetings for students with new hearing diagnoses and/or new hearing equipment

• ISP/IPP: we can work with you to provide hearing-related goals that will specifically target areas your dDHH student needs to work on

• Please note every dDHH student should have an ISP that outlines the essential access technology they use and the strategies that help them gain better access to spoken language in all of their learning environments at school (even for students who currently do not seem to be experiencing academic or social impacts associated with their hearing loss)

• Classroom presentations about how hearing works and how to protect your hearing 

• Offer community outings to bring dDHH students together from across SW Alberta

*Please note: when the dDHH team (Mitchell and Pauline) get in touch with you, both members of the team are copied on the email to ensure continuity of service. Please use the "Reply All" feature when responding to keep the whole team in the loop. Thank you in advance for doing this...it saves us a lot of time!