Educational Rights
A change to instruction, assessment, and/or materials to help the needs of students.
What is accommodations?
These are located in the middle ear and help to funnel sound to the cochlea (inner ear).
What are ossicles, or the middle ear bones?
This strategy allows the listener to use visual cues to pick up on what the speaker is saying.
What is lip reading?
A piece of equipment or system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a student. HINT: This is the overall category, not the device you use to help you listen.
What is assistive technology device?
the action of representing oneself to help others understand how they can best provide support.
What is self-advocacy?
form of measuring what students know and are able to do rather than traditional tests (e.g. oral reports, portfolios, etc.)
What is alternate assessment?
This structure is specifically designed to funnel in sound, particularly speech sound, and is a natural amplifier.
What is a pinna, or outer ear?
This strategy has to do with rate of speech
What is asking someone to speak slowly and clearly, not necessarily louder? (not all component needed)
These are worn on or behind the ear in order to transmit sound, amplify it, and help individuals with hearing difficulties understand speech more clearly.
What are hearing aids?
This accommodation helps students hear better in a classroom.
What is preferential seating, or sitting closer to the teacher?
Service that directly assists a child with disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of a specific devices
What is assistive technology service?
This structure is organized in a way that codes various pitches at specific parts, and sends it to the brain to be interpreted.
What is the cochlea (inner ear)?
This strategy is used when a listener asks a speaker to do something so that they can hear clearly what was said.
What is request for repetition, clarification, etc.?
This device is helpful for students who have listening challenges in the classroom.
What is an FM system?
Refers to a section of the rehabilitation act of 1973. It is a federal anti-discrimination law that protects the rights of students with disabilities and provides services to meet their needs.
What is Section 504?
Federal law that establishes the right of children to specialized education and describes how services are to be delivered.
What is IDEA, or Individuals with Disabilities Act?
This is the structure that is connected to the middle ear bones. Pressure Equalization tubes can be placed in this structure in order to let fluid drain out of the ear for individuals who have a lot of ear infections.
What is the eardrum, or tympanic membrane?
This strategy allows the listener to have the best opportunity to hear an entire conversation. While hallways provide a lot of distraction, this space is without distractions.
What is moving to a quieter location, or any example of a quiet location?
This is what allows hearing aids to sync to your phone, and use the devices to stream music and answer calls.
What is bluetooth
modification of programs in ways that permit students with disabilities to participate more fully. Requires school districts to provide reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities
What is reasonable accommodation?
What is LRE, or least restrictive environment?
These structures are within the inner ear, and what receive the signal to send to the brain. You have three rows of outer, and one of inner.
What are hair cells?
This is a maladaptive (poor) strategy that many individuals with hearing loss use when they no longer want to ask for clarification.
What is bluffing?
This device inserts an electrode, surgically, into the inner ear and uses that electrode to send auditory signals to the brain for people who are hard or hearing.
What are cochlear implants?
What is OCR, or office of civil rights?