Roselynn’s Story
Roselynn is FHSR’s amazing patient champion for our 2022 Annual Appeal!Born with bilateral hearing loss, Roselynn has overcome many obstacles to become the fairytale princess loving talkative singing little girl we know today. Identified with mild to moderate hearing loss, Roselynn was first fitted with hearing aids at Comer Children’s Hospital in 2018. Thanks in […]
Tips for Improving Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Retention
By: Associate Board Member EmilyAnn Duffley Every parent of a young child with hearing loss knows that it is sometimes a challenge to keep the devices on their busy child’s head when they are being active. If a hearing device falls off of a child while on the playground or during sports, it is easy […]
ASL Stages of Development
For those that use sign language as their primary approach to language access, there are language development milestones to consider that are specific to sign language. These milestones can be used to monitor ASL development in young children. One such checklist used by the California School for the Deaf in Fremont is listed below. 2 […]
Relay Services
If you don’t have access to internet services or smartphones… There are many available technologies for children who have difficulty with discrimination of speech on the telephone. This difficulty is compounded by the poor voice quality of many users of cell phones and speakerphones. A technology that provides assistance by converting speech to sign/text is […]
Reading to Children who have a hearing loss
Reading to children who have hearing loss is just as important for overall growth and development as it is for children who have normal hearing. As you are reading to your child, you are helping them develop reading comprehension, visual/tracking skills, expressive and receptive language and vocabulary skills. Below are some principles to use with […]
Pitch perception and Cochlear Implant users
Did you know that cochlear implant users perceive pitch in an entirely different way than normal hearing listeners? This can sometimes make it difficult for people with cochlear implants to appreciate the melody of music or understand tone of voice. Let’s put this into an analogy on the piano. Pretend that all the keys on […]
Connections Webinar: Creating a music rich environment in homes for infants with hearing loss
Create a music rich environment! How playful interactions at home with music and movement stimulate cognition and foster sound production.
Live from Merit: Music Education for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children with FHSR
Today, visionary music educators are finding that music education especially benefits children who are deaf/hard of hearing (DHH).
A conversation with FHSR Music Program Coordinator & Merit School Teacher, Sally Blandon
With all that is happening in today’s world one constant that everyone can relate to is music. In 2019 FHSR made a commitment to bring music classes for deaf/hard of hearing children through our Music To My Ears program (MTME). We started with Early Childhood music classes with our partners at The Old Town School […]
Tips for Successful Virtual Learning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Kids
2020 has not looked like any other year we have seen, causing parents and caregivers to wear even more hats when it comes to their children’s education. Parents and Caregivers have become science teachers, gym teachers, lunch room helpers and art instructors (to name a few) as schools have moved to online classrooms. With a […]
