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Member Consultations

Normally $70/hr, you can join a call and get free consultations multiple times each week. Get personalized recommendations and strategies to support you, helping you meet the needs of your deaf or hard of hearing students.

You're invite to join live Zoom office hours three days a week where you can drop in, ask questions, discuss student cases, get feedback on IEPs, problem-solve challenging situations, or receive guidance on any deaf education topic,

Comprehensive List of Assessments to Evaluate Students with Hearing Loss

Determining special education eligibility and support for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) requires a comprehensive, whole-child approach. Rather than focusing on a disability label, IEP teams should prioritize a needs-based evaluation to ensure accurate eligibility decisions, create actionable IEP goals, and foster meaningful student progress. This document provides a list of resources to help evaluate a whole child with hearing loss. Many of the tools are linked inside the Academy.

Listening and Spoken Language Development

This Audit-Proof IEP Bundle includes your pre and post assessments, IEP goals/objectives, data collection sheets and linked activities for each skill.

This checklist is designed to support educational teams in evaluating a student's current listening and spoken language abilities, identifying language needs, and determining appropriate services in educational settings.

Let's Talk Audiograms will teach your student the different degrees of hearing loss, how to chart hearing loss on an audiogram, different types of hearing loss and what it all means in the real world!

Share with teachers, coaches, instructors, or anyone else who needs to understand how their hearing loss impacts them.

This template provides you with downloadable slides. You can modify them to your liking and then download them as a .pdf file (in case you want to share them digitally or print them). This way, you will have a tailor-made version on your computer.

SELF-IDENTITY LESSON: LAUREN RIDLOFF

When Lauren's family learned that she was deaf, they embraced sign language. Lauren started at a school with hearing students, but didn't feel like she belonged. Lauren has always believed that whatever makes you different is exactly what makes you powerful.

She took this belief to the stage and even to Hollywood. Lauren Ridloff was cast as Makkari in the movie Eternals. She made history by becoming the very first Deaf superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Learn how she did it and what you can learn from her!

Etiology Unit

This lesson explains etiology, which is the cause or reason behind hearing loss. With a parent letter, vocabulary, worksheets and more, this lesson emphasizes that while the cause of hearing loss is just the start of a person's story, the most important focus is celebrating how each unique individual communicates and connects with the world.

Emergency Cards

This document provides materials and instructions for creating Student Identification and Communication Cards, as well as an Emergency Support Menu, designed for individuals who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or DeafBlind.

My DHH Journal

This guided journal is designed to support deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students by providing a dedicated space for personal growth, self-advocacy, identity exploration, and community connection. The journal encourages users to process their experiences through regular reflections and offers an open space to write freely.

Work Hard, Play Hard: Navigating Contact Sports and High Impact Play with Hearing Gear

Learn essential equipment adaptations. This lesson empowers students to self-advocate, utilize IEP/504 rule modifications like soccer "No Heading" mandates, and rely on visual referee signals so they can participate fully in sports while protecting their devices .

Hearing Protection Lesson

This lesson provides practical, real-world strategies and engaging student stories that explain how to safeguard internal anatomy—like the vestibular system in individuals with Enlarged Vestibular Aqueducts (EVA)—as well as external hearing technologies like cochlear implants, bone-anchored systems, and hard earmolds. By teaching critical skills such as proper helmet adjustments, identifying pressure points, and practicing self-advocacy, this lesson empowers students to confidently navigate sports and recreational activities, ensuring they stay fully protected, pain-free, and active.

Technology Sabotage Scenarios

This structured self-advocacy activity that creates safe, planned opportunities for students to recognize and respond when their hearing technology is not providing appropriate access. Through realistic scenarios involving a Roger system—such as a muted microphone, forgotten transmitter, or interfering noise—students practice alerting an adult, explaining the problem, and requesting a solution. The accompanying data sheet allows educators to document whether the student recognized the problem, how quickly they responded, and whether they independently advocated for their needs. Tech Sabotage Scenarios created by Alison Fuson, M.Ed., Seattle, Washington.

9 Ways to Make Your Classroom More Inclusive for Your DHH Students

A perfect handout for your general ed team, this infographic gives easy tips on how to make their room more inclusive to their DHH students.

The Myth of "I'm Loud Enough"

This infographic will help staff and students understand the challenges that background noise and distance can cause for students with hearing loss and the difference the remote mic makes.

New User Guide!

Resources for New Itinerants gives you the pure basics to get started in itinerant teaching. Covering four key areas — understanding your role, assessing student needs, navigating the IEP process, and managing itinerant logistics — this guide connects you to the tools and trainings you need to hit the ground running, with ongoing support through The Online Itinerant community and YouTube channel.