Hearing Disorders

(Section updated May 31, 2020)

There are nearly 90 FREEBIES with keyword hearing disorders and selecting "free" on Teachers Pay Teachers

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There are nearly 350 FREEBIES with keyword deaf and selecting "free" on Teachers Pay Teachers

• Deaf Library is a phenomenal collection of links to many resources.
• Prevention/education about hearing and hearing loss
  • Downloadable handouts for kids and young adults (http://www.audiology.org/resources/consumer/Pages/kids.aspx) from the American Academy of Audiology.
  • Wise Ears - a national campaign to prevent noise-induced hearing loss from NIDCD (www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/wise/index.asp)
  • Scott Bradley's hearing loss simulator (http://web.archive.org/web/20090316004001/http://facstaff.uww.edu:80/bradleys/radio/hlsimulation/)
  • Explanation of What does a cochlear implant sound like?(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzgQrHFDNLE) and a YouTube demonstration of Cochlear implant: simulation on speech and music( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpKKYBkJ9Hw)
  • Loudness Scale to help determine the approximate decibel levels of sounds (http://web.archive.org/web/20080517073554/http://www.entnet.org/HealthInformation/loudnessScale.cfm)
  • Hard of Hearing and Deaf Students: A Resource Guide to Support Classroom Teachers a 29 page PDF (www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/hearimpair/toc.htm)
  • Learning about the sense of hearing - the following information and URLs to various websites to explore the sense of hearing.
    • A Craft that Helps Kids Understand the Sense of Hearing (www.atozkidsstuff.com/senses.html#sound)
    • Ears and Hearing (http://www.innerbody.com/image/nerv13.html)
• Signing
  • Signed Alphabet
    • Bill Vicar's ASL University has
      • ASL hand shapes for the letters of the English alphabet(www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/abc.htm)
      • finger spelling fonts for PC of Mac downloadable PC or Mac (www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/gallaudettruetypefont.htm)
      • manual alphabet charts(www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/sign-language.htm).
    • Practice deciphering signed words of varying lengths and at different speeds (http://asl.ms/).
    • My Smart Hands video of the ABC song/ASL alphabet (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMQHd1UBkeI).
    • Type in letters or words to see them finger-spelled in animation (http://web.archive.org/web/20010413162335/www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/culture/sign_flash5.html).
    • Funbrain's "Sign the Alphabet" (www.funbrain.com/signs/index.html)
    • Make your own finger-spelling flash cards from downloadable illustrations at
      • Apples for the Teacher (www.apples4theteacher.com/asl/flashcards/lettersabcd.html)
      • Enchanted Learning(www.enchantedlearning.com/language/asl/flashcards/)
      • ABC Teach(www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/sign_language/flashcards/).
  • Signed Vocabulary Words
    • Michigan State University's American Sign Language Browser (https://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/index.html)
    • ASLU English to ASL Dictionary (www.lifeprint.com/dictionary.htm)
    • Signing Savvy (www.signingsavvy.com/) videos of ASL signs.
    • ASLPro.com (www.aslpro.com) provides a fingerspell quiz (www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/fingerspell.cgi) as well as a main dictionary and religious, conversational, and ASL for babies dictionaries.
    • Static and animated finger-spelling quizzes with answers and with no answers (www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/index.htm ) from the ASL University. How to Teach Baby 25 Key Words in Basic Sign Language
    • Basic ASL: First 100 Signs (www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm)
    • Includes Sign Language for Babies (www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi)
    • Lesson Tutor's Dictionary Index (http://web.archive.org/web/20070302122923/http://www.lessontutor.com/eesASLdictionarylinks.html) ASL words in simple line drawings
    • Sign Language Dictionary (http://web.archive.org/web/20070208110431/http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Signing/index.html).
    • Baby Sign Language Dictionary (www.weehands.com/dictionary.html) from "wee hands"
  • Comprehension Practice
    • Signwriting Children's Stories (www.signwriting.org/library/children/) including The Cat in the Hat and poems in sign.
    • "Sign Language Games" from Kiddie Signs has six free sign language activities (www.kiddiesgames.com/en/sign_language_games.php).
    • Video Examples of ASL by Douglas Dunn (www.wordwiz72.com/interp/aslvideos.html) has links to ASL interpretation of Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches and songs including John Lennon's "Imagine" and Elton John's "World Without Borders."
    • Free sign-language-learning videos are available online by registering with the Described and Captioned Media Program (www.dcmp.org/About/Default.aspx), which also lends video materials. To find ASL materials on this Web site, open "Browse" then "Deafness," then "Sign Language." Among the popular videos available for streaming are the Bravo Family Beginning ASL Video courses.
    • ASL University has
      • 45 lessons to download (www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm)
      • A free 84-page workbook (www.lifeprint.com/asl101/curriculum/index.htm)
      • lessons in deaf culture (www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/culture1.htm)
      • directory of common abbreviations and terms (www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/culturestudyguide.htm).
    • For additional practice in interpreting signed English
      • DeafVIDEO TV (http://asl.deafvideo.tv/)
      • ASL vloggers (www.deafvideo.tv/vloggers/)
      • For ASL videos enter "ASL" at Google video (http://video.google.com/).
  • Speech reading/cued speech/captioning
    • Speech Reading In Context: A Guide for Practice in Everyday Settings from Gallaudet University Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, contains lesson plans and activities.
    • The Art of Cueing - several video clips which demonstrate how to cue example words and phrases (http://cuedspeech.usf.edu/Art/).
    • The Described and Captioned Media Program (CMP) - a free-loan, open-captioned media collection of over 4,000 titles (videos, including some that are streamed and available online, CD-ROM, and DVD) available to hearing impaired, their parents, or those who work with them) are video streamed lessons in ASL and speech reading. (www.dcmp.org)
  • Listening Activities/Auditory Training
    • FindSounds (www.findsounds.com/types.html) is a search engine for locating online sounds made by birds, animals, natural events, household items, musical instruments, holiday events, people, tools, vehicles, and more.
    • Between the Lions (https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/btl07-ex/) - listening for sounds in words.
    • The Listening Room provides free activities and resources to support the development of speech, language and listening skills of children and adult cochlear implant recipients. (https://thelisteningroom.com/) - must register to log in
    • 123Listening.com (http://www.123listening.com/) printable activities to use with free downloadable audio files and mp3 listening tracks available from the main page.
    • Manythings Minimal Pairs listening exercise (http://www.manythings.org/pp/)
    • Discrimination Cards from the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program (http://web.archive.org/web/20080502231411/http://www.sickkids.ca/cochlearimplant/section.asp?s=For+Therapists&sID=6702&ss=Discrimination+cards&ssID=6768)
    • Speech and Auditory Training Activities (www.deafed.net/PublishedDocs/sub/980122w.htm).
    • Scott Bradley'sWireless FM (Auditory Trainer) Simulation - (http://www.uww.edu/comdis/radio/fm/)
    • Gets an Earful - matching sounds with pictures (www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/sound/index.htm)
  • Tools to display sound signals - free, cross-platform sound editor software for recording (and editing if you want). Displays pitch, intensity, spectrogram, voice breaks, etc.
    • Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/home/)
    • PRAAT (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/)