Christie Walsh: Independent Teacher of the Deaf | Therapist

Christie Walsh: Independent Teacher of the Deaf

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21.01.2022 A collaborative working partnership between the family, the school and a Teacher of the Deaf maximises support and ensures the best possible outcomes for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. My experience as both a classroom teacher and a Teacher of the Deaf in schools ensures I understand the challenges teachers and schools face in catering to the diverse needs of learners and that consultancy needs to be practical and collaborative to be sustainable and effective. I offer a range of consultancy options for schools. All of which are fully customisable

20.01.2022 For Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in an oral education setting, oral language intervention supports their literacy, learning and communication. Oral language intervention can target... -Listening Skills: Learning to listen through assistive devices.... -Expressive & Receptive Language:Understanding and using oral language. This includes concepts, parts of speech, sentence formulation, discourse and vocabulary. -Pragmatic Language: Using language in context to socialise and communicate skillfully. -Phonological Awareness: Understanding the sound structures of language (a core component of literacy). -Articulation: Producing speech sounds correctly.

15.01.2022 Ensuring Deaf and Hard of Hearing young people and children get the support they need, wherever they are. Offering flexible delivery to suit your family's needs. Therapy services can be provided at school, at home or remotely.

13.01.2022 Offering a range of tailored therapeutic services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and young people, providing individual therapy to support and monitor: -Language, speech, and auditory skills development -Social and emotional development -Self advocacy and self management

13.01.2022 The option to use your NDIS funding to employ a Teacher of the Deaf to provide therapeutic services gives you choice and control of educational setting without sacrificing expert, ongoing intervention.

12.01.2022 Social skills foster connection and belonging, and are imperative to the development and maintenance of relationships between young people and their peers, teachers and families. Communicative competence in a social context can help to reduce the isolation Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and young people sometimes experience. Expert intervention from a Teacher of the Deaf can support:... -Awareness of self and others -Self regulation -Body language -Conversation skills -Friendship skills -Cooperation & negotiation -Understanding of how to share space -Understanding of how to be part of a group -Understanding of expected & unexpected behaviour -Social problem solving -Social inference -Assertiveness See more

11.01.2022 With expert, ongoing intervention and a working partnership between schools, families and Teachers of the Deaf, Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and young people can thrive.

04.01.2022 I am a passionate advocate for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and young people. My mission is to equip them with the skills they need to thrive in and outside of the classroom; to develop in them a strong sense of self and the confidence to strive for their full potential. I offer a range of tailored therapeutic services for DHH children and young people and practical, collaborative, sustainable, and effective consultancy options for schools.

04.01.2022 Self-advocacy is vital in ensuring access and inclusion. Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and young people to understand barriers and facilitators to their learning equips them with the language and skills they need to advocate for themselves. Expert intervention from a Teacher of the Deaf can support: -Requesting the use of assistive technology and the ability to explain it works... -Requesting a quiet space when collaborating with other students -Sitting in a position that optimises their access to instruction -Interpreting an audiogram and the ability to explain own hearing loss -The ability to explain how hearing aids and/or cochlear implants work -Identifying and rectifying communication breakdown -The ability to communicate learning needs See more

03.01.2022 Self-management of assistive devices and technology empowers Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and young people to become independent. Expert intervention from a Teacher of the Deaf can support skills such as: -Putting on own hearing aids/processors... -Identifying when hearing aid/processor batteries are dead -Removing moisture and wax from hearing aid tubing -Connecting to a Roger network -Connecting to a tablet, laptop or smartphone. -Developing an in-depth understanding of the functions and features of assistive devices and technology -Troubleshooting for processors, hearing aids, transmitters and other technologies See more