Itinerant Services at the Nursery Level
See above under preschool program
Itinerant Services at Elementary and High School
- Full mainstreaming possible at any point in the child's school career
- Intensive support for the student's communicative, academic, and personal/social needs
- Audiological management
- One-to-one teaching to facilitate the development of abstract thinking and general knowledge
- Liaison with regular teachers, interpreters, integration aides, and other professionals
- Emphasis on independence and adaptive strategies such as use of FM systems, note-takers, course outlines,
- Assistance in planning for adaptation or modification of curriculum; help in obtaining special consideration for tests and exams
- Close contact with parents
- Bilingual support for students in bilingual or immersion programs
- Counseling role to students: special understanding of hearing-impaired individual's specific needs
- Assistance in selection of academic options and career direction
- Advocate to student and his/her family
- One-to-one discussions to facilitate the development of abstract thinking and general knowledge
- Social activities with other hearing-impaired students
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