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Parent/Guardian Information

15 Principles for Reading to Deaf Children (Gallaudet University)

A Parent's Guide to Hearing Loss (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children (Reading Rockets)

Hearing Loss Simulation

Hearing Loss Simulator (Ear Science Institute Australia)

One Cost of Being the Lone 'DHH Kid" and the Need to Assess Social/Emotional Issues (Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss)

Outcomes of Children Hearing Loss Study

Supporting Success for Kids with Hearing Loss

You Are Not Alone: For Parents When They Learn That Their Child Has a Disability (Center for Parent Information and Resources)

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Language & Communication Milestones

American Sign Language and English Language Developmental Milestones (IDEAL)

Auditory Skills Checklist (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)

Speech and Language Developmental Milestones (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

What is Communication? (National Center for Deafblindness)

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Iowa Expanded Core Curriculum

Expanded Core Curriculum for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

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American Sign Language (ASL)

ASL Classes

American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC)

ASL Connect

Iowa School for the Deaf

Language First

Language Priority

Oklahoma School for the Deaf 

Sign School

Start ASL

 

ASL Websites

American Sign Language Reading and Parents Program (ALSO)

ASL Nook

Deaf Websites

Lifeprint.com

PBS Kids American Sign Language - Full episodes of PBS Kids programs with ASL and Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP).

Signing Savvy

Signing Time

Why I Sign

 

ASL YouTube

ASL Spanish Stories

ASL Storytelling 

Bill Vicars-LifePrint.com

Iowa School for the Deaf

Read with ASL

Rochester School for the Deaf

Rocky Mountain Deaf School

Signed Stories 

 

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Listening & Spoken Language

Auditory/Oral Education (Hands & Voices)

Auditory-Verbal Therapy (Cleveland Clinic)

Chapter 2: Communications Options - From the E-Book: Preparing to Teach, Committing to Learn: An Introduction to Educating Children Who Are Deaf/ Hard of Hearing (2017-2020) (National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management)

Listening (Auditory Skills) Development (Supporting Success for Kids with Hearing Loss)

National Cued Speech Association

Primary and Preferred Language/Communication Mode: Guidelines for Assessment and Educational Evaluation of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (Outreach Center for Deafness and Blindness)

Visual Phonics (International Communications Learning Institute)

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Iowa Supports & Services

Area Education Agencies

ASK Resource Center

Easterseals Iowa

Iowa Deafblind Project

Iowa Family Support Network

Iowa Hands & Voices

Iowa School for the Deaf Outreach

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National Organizations

AG Bell

American Society for Deaf Children

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Deaf Latinos y Familias Organization

Deaf-Blindness (Center for the Parent Information and Resources)

Global Coalition of Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Hands & Voices

Hearing Health Foundation

Hearing Loss Association of America

Helen Keller National Center

iCanConnect

National Association of the Deaf

National Family Association for DeafBlind

Organizations for People with Deafblindness (The Charge Syndrome Foundation)

Regional Early Acquisition of Language (REAL) 

Services and Organizations for Families (National Center on Deafblindness)

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Research Opportunities

Boys Town National Research Hospital

Communication Sciences and Disorders: Hearing Services (University of Iowa)

Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (Gallaudet University)

Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (Gallaudet University)

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For Educators

Iowa Expanded Core Curriculum

Expanded Core Curriculum for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

 

Accommodations

Captioning - The difference between captioned vs cart services. (Hearing Loss Association of America)

 

Educational Materials

Described and Captioned Media Program

Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading (Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University)

Foundation for Literacy

International Communication Learning Institute - Visual Phonics

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