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Making Poetry
A hearing impaired student identifies rhyming words. In this rhyming word lesson for the hearing impaired, 2nd graders read and write poetry correctly using rhyming words.
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Pathways to the Future
Students draw a pathway and create a movement phrase along that same path using specific movement vocabulary. The phrases are performed in class and rubrics are used for assessment. Meets State standards for the arts.
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Regional Differences
Students examine how the brain sends and receives messages by assessing PET scans. They diagram areas of the brain that evaluate various situations. They discover that individuality is due to different responsesnin the brain.
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Sensation and Perception
In this psychology worksheet, students complete a 5 short answer quiz on sensation and perception. They explain how the five body senses are used to collect information about the environment.
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Hurricane Scavenger Hunt
Fourth graders use Internet and/or library resources to locate and record information about hurricanes on a worksheet..
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Learning About Weather
Students decide what type of weather they would like to write about such as tornadoes, hurricanes, snow, hail, floods, or another type of weather.
Then, they look up the information and jot down notes about that particular subject....
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Willy the Super - Ant
In this reading worksheet, learners learn to distinguish between the words "want" and "what" by reading a story about a super-ant. Students read or listen to the story and draw 7 cartoons to show events in the story. In each cartoon box...
National Institutes of Health
Nidcd: Auditory Processing Disorder in Children
This resource discusses and defines Auditory Processing Disorder in Children and also focuses on current trends in research to help this disorder along with additional resources for information.
LD Online
Ld Online: Visual and Auditory Processing Disorders
A reference guide for educators of students with processing or perceptual handicaps. Included are definitions and descriptions of visual and auditory processing disorders, as well as specific difficulties and strategies associated with...
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Kids Health: Central Auditory Processing Disorder
Central auditory processing disorder is defined here, with examples, symptoms, and causes. This article also includes tips for parents, problem areas for kids with CAPD, and advice for long term success.
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Kids Health: Central Auditory Processing Disorder
Central auditory processing disorder is defined here, with examples, symptoms, and causes. This article also includes tips for parents, problem areas for kids with CAPD, and advice for long term success.
Indiana University
Indiana University: Sensory Integration: Tips to Consider
This article gives examples of how it looks when a child is experiencing sensory processing issues and gives tips on how to provide a sensory diet to "nourish" a child's nervous system. The examples and tips are categorized into groups...
Other
National Speech/language Therapy Center
Home page for an organization dedicated to the treatment of speech/language disorders in children. This site contains a great deal of information about speech and language disorders and therapy.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
Other
American Speech Language Hearing Association (Asha): Types of Hearing Loss
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) distinguishes between the three types of hearing loss. Also provided is information on the seven categories of hearing loss and hearing loss configurations.
NeurOreille
Journey Into the World of Hearing: Hearing Loss Treatments
View this tutorial about hearing loss treatments. Includes flash animations to help visualize the process.
Other
First Signs: Other Developmental Disorders
Although developmental and behavioral disorders are increasingly widespread, they are still poorly understood by most of society. The lack of knowledge is further compounded by the stigma that often accompanies a diagnosis of a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Commanding a Robot Using Sound
Students continue their exploration of the human senses and their engineering counterparts, focusing on the auditory sense. Working in small groups, students design, create and run programs to control the motion of LEGO TaskBots. By...
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Seeing With Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses
For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Ideasthesia: How Do Ideas Feel?
The traditional model of our mental function is that first our senses provide data to our brain, which then translates those senses into the appropriate mental phenomena: light into visual images, air vibrations into auditory...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Elements of Speech Communication
This lesson discusses the elements of speech communication including the speaker, message, types of channels, audience, and feedback.
Other
Pro health.com: Scientists Devise Scale for Measuring Alzheimer's
This article reveals that researchers have devised a way to measure the severity of Alzheimer's disease using an index.