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I Have a Child With a Cochlear Implant in My Preschool Classroom. Now What?
Content type: Journal Article
The purpose of this article is to present strategies for successfully including preschoolers who are deaf and use cochlear implants. The majority of children with cochlear implants attend general education classrooms in public schools. However, many...
Teaching Vocabulary to Preschool Children With Hearing Loss
Content type: Journal Article
Despite poor vocabulary outcomes for children with hearing loss, few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of specific vocabulary teaching methods on vocabulary learning for this group. The authors compared three vocabulary instruction conditions with...
Response Time of Young Children With Complex Communication Needs Following a Communication Opportunity
Content type: Journal Article
Children with complex communication needs (CCN) who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often need more time to process and respond when communicating with others. This study employed a survival analysis approach exploring child response...
Integrating Augmentative and Alternative Communication Into a Stay-Play-Talk Program in Preschool
Content type: Journal Article
Stay-Play-Talk (SPT) is a peer-mediated intervention used to increase social interactions between preschoolers with developmental disabilities and typically developing (TD) peers. This intervention has been found to be successful in increasing play and...
Early Intervention to Preschool Transition for Children Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing: A TEAM Approach
Content type: Journal Article
Parents, teachers, and administrators report concerns and challenges related to the transition from early intervention (EI) to preschool for children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing. The goal of the current article is to assist teachers, administrators, and...
Practice-Based Coaching to Support Paraeducator Implementation of Shared Book-Reading Strategies in Preschool
Content type: Journal Article
The practice based coaching (PBC) framework offers early childhood special educators (e.g., teachers and paraprofessionals) the opportunity to collaborate in order to best support the needs of the children in their classroom. Evidence-based strategies (i.e...
Ann Thompson
Content type: 100 Stories
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24 August, 2021
Ann Thompson is a teacher consultant for the deaf and hard of hearing for children from birth to 3 years old at the Northview School District in Grand Rapids Michigan. She helps children with the transition to preschool by working individually with...
Shared Reading and Guided Play for Vocabulary Instruction With Young Children
Content type: Journal Article
Delays in oral language development in early childhood can be an indicator for later reading disabilities and affect students’ overall school success through high school. Fortunately, there are research-based approaches to help young students at risk for...