Discuss the guidelines and curriculum adaptations you would use to include a child who is educationally blind in your class. Give concrete examples for how you would modify your class day, using examples from several different curriculum areas.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2When a child with a hearing impairment has an interpreter with her in the classroom, the teacher and other children should be conscious of addressing both the interpreter and the child.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Question 3A cochlear implant improves the maturation of the auditory pathways.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Question 4Infants with loss of 90 dB HL or greater may have cochlear implants as young as 12 months.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Question 5The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association suggests that all children should be screened annually during elementary school, then only if they are considered at-risk once they reach first grade.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Question 6Well newborns are screened between 9 and 24 hours after birth.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Question 7If intervention begins before six months, even children with profound losses can be in contact with an auditory world, if that is what the family desires.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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