9. Supporting Children With Hearing Loss In The Mainstream

Today we talk with Dr. Uma Soman about supporting children with hearing loss in the mainstream setting. Uma was a professor of Tatum's and Jessica's at Vanderbilt and is a teacher of the deaf, the outreach coordinator for Carle Auditory Oral School, and co-founder of Listening Together whose mission is to support education and rehabilitation of children who are deaf or hard of hearing around the world through parent empowerment, professional development, and public awareness. Tune in to learn about positive, easy terminology for classifying children based on growth trajectories. Uma helps us understand who supports children who are deaf or hard of hearing in the mainstream, how to collaborate with other professionals, how language impacts the additional academic demands of school-age children, and what other needs a child might have as they go into middle school and high school. Follow along with the transcripts at childsvoice.org/podcast. You can also follow us at @childs_voice, @JessicaBrockSLP, and @TatumFritzSLP!