Exceptional Children and Disability Information
Hearing Impairments
Hearing Impairments Topic Categories
Introduction to NAPCSE's Hearing Impairments Page
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), includes "hearing impairment" and "deafness" as two of the categories under which children with disabilities may be eligible for special education and related services programming. While the term "hearing impairment" is often used generically to describe a wide range of hearing losses, including deafness, the regulations for IDEA define hearing loss and deafness separately.
Hearing impairment is defined by IDEA as "an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
Deafness is defined as "a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification."
Thus, deafness may be viewed as a condition that prevents an individual from receiving sound in all or most of its forms. In contrast, a child with a hearing loss can generally respond to auditory stimuli, including speech.
NAPCSE provides it members with numerous resources on hearing impairments and deafness.
The topics listed are individual websites that can be accessed only by members of The National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education (NAPCSE). If you are not a member of NAPCSE, and would like to join, click here to register. Members of NAPCSE, please log in above (member login and password) to activate these, and all other websites, in our database.
- overview
- reluctance to ask for accommodations
- in large lectures
- in science labs
- in computer labs
- writing assignments
- overview
Adults with Hearing Impairments
- screening
- from Alexander Graham Bell Association
- Advocacy-self help
Assessing Individuals with Hearing Impairments
- Info/Steps
- Assessing Children for the Presence of a Disability
- Info
- Assessing Children for the Presence of a Disability
- Assessment
- infant hearing screening
- assessment
- assistive listening devices in the classroom
- acoustics
- accessibility guidelines
- overview-Microsoft
- types of assistive technology
- different types
Audio/Video
- videos
- captioned media program
- American Sign Language videos
- List of Books
- Assessment and Intervention Book
- Counseling Children with Hearing Impairments and Their Families
- Studies in Disorders of Communication
- Impact of Hearing Impairment on Family Life
- Genetics and Hearing Impairment
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Hearing Impairment in Children
- Hearing Impairment in Children
- When the Hearing Gets Hard: Winning the Battle Against Hearing Impairment
- Children with Hearing Impairment: Contemporary Trends
- Effectively Educating Students with Hearing Impairments
- Hearing and Hearing Impairment
- Hearing Impairment
- Hearing Impairments in Young Children
- Serving all Learners with Hearing Impairment
- Screening for Hearing Impairment in Young Children
- Guidelines for Libraries Serving Persons with a Hearing Impairment or a Visual Impairment
- Case Studies in Clinical Rehabilitation Assessment and Hearing Impairment
- Identifying Early Phonological Needs in Children with Hearing Impairments
Causes
- How Common is Hearing Loss and What Causes It?
- Causes and Types of Hearing Impairment
- Cause and Types of Hearing Impairments
- Info on Causes
- extensive and comprehensive list
- Causes and types
- Hearing loss causes
- Hearing loss FAQs
- Possible causes of hearing loss
- Causes and Types of Hearing Loss
- Age-Related Changes in Hearing
- extensive and comprehensive list of causes
- Info and Educational Implications
- ERIC article-good overview
- slide presentation
- mild hearing loss
- types and degrees of hearing loss
- unilateral hearing loss
- PDF file on sight classification system
- disorders of the outer ear
- disorders of the middle ear
- disorders of the middle ear
- References-1
- References-2
- References-3
- References-4
- Strategies for teaching students with hearing impairments
- general strategies
- teacher presentation
- sign language 101
- American Sign Language
- signwriting
- signwriting overview
- classroom acoustics
- growing up deaf-classroom issues
- cued speech
- deaf children with learning disabilities
- deaf and music
- Strategies for Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments
- Strategies for communication between the hearing and the hearing-impaired
- Tips
- bilingual and hearing impairments
- Info
- Welcoming the Child with Hearing Impairment into Child Care
- Info
- captioned media programs online
- overview of educating children who are deaf
- auditory-oral approach
- auditory-verbal approach
- English based sign systems
- total communication approach
- inclusion
- additional learning problems
- work related information
- disability related terms
- hearing and rehabilitation
- Terms
- definition
- definition with listed ranges
- PAHCS starts hearing screening of newborns
- Info
- kinds of hearing losses
- pediatric hearing loss
- FAQ on hearing loss
- FAQ on TTY
- history of hearing aids
- history of closed captioning
- history of the cochlear implants
- History of Gallaudet University
- history of signed language
- history of the TTY
- people in deaf history
- effects of hearing loss
- cochlear implants
- deaf people and cerebral palsy
- deaf people with Autism
- Deaf blindness
- deafness and balance problems
- deafness and mental retardation
- Deaf Education
- National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management
- Hearing Health Magazine Online
- List of National Organizations
- American Society of Deaf Children ASDC
- Better Hearing Institute
- National Association of the Deaf
- Acoustic Neuroma Association
- Cochlear Implant Association
- Ear Foundation
- Association of Late Deafened Adults
- Alexander Graham Bell Association
- Children of Deaf Adults
- National Black Deaf Advocates
- Hearing Loss.org
Overview and General Information
- Fact sheet
- overview article
- overview including incidence and characteristics
- facts sheet
- Info
- Resources for Parents of Children with Central Auditory Processing Disorders
- Deaf parents with hearing children
- Parental Decision Making for Infants with Hearing Impairment
- For families dealing with hearing loss
- Children of Deaf Adults
- back to school advice
- charter schools
- adoption of Deaf/HOH children
- deafness from birth to death
- home schooling
- PDF information booklet
- postsecondary school concerns
- work related information
- facts
- PDF file
