ABOUT THE BOOK

Late to the Party: Extraordinary Stories of Hope After Late-Identified Hearing Loss

Title: Late to the Party: Extraordinary Stories of Hope After Late-Identified Hearing Loss
Author: Valerie James Abbott
Foreword by: Karl R. White, PhD
ISBN 979-8-9855979-2-9 Paperback
Publication Date: May 5, 2026

Guided by intimate interviews with sixteen families across the United States. parent advocate and award-winning author Valerie James Abbott has woven together a one-of-a-kind collection of true stories that illustrates what happens when hearing loss is identified later, outside of newborn hearing screening. When risk factors are overlooked, parent concerns are dismissed, and pediatric audiology services are difficult to access, families face an avalanche of emotions, and young children miss important developmental milestones. This collection offers validation, compassion, and hope for parents navigating this difficult journey. Students and stakeholders will find valuable case studies for group discussions and the development of more effective early childhood hearing screening programs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Valerie James Abbott

Following her daughter’s diagnosis, Valerie became a parent subject matter expert and passionate champion for early childhood hearing health. Her award-winning children’s book, Padapillo, was published in 2021 and launched what became the Late Onset Hearing Loss Awareness Campaign. Drawing from research and lived experience, Valerie speaks to audiences across the country, calling attention to the risk factors and signs of unidentified pediatric hearing loss, the critical importance of proactive hearing health monitoring, and the impact of late-identification on language, literacy, and social-emotional development.

Late to the Party: Extraordinary Stories of Hope After Late-Identified Hearing Loss is her second published book. Her first book, Padapillo, is based on her family’s experience with early childhood hearing loss and received a Moonbeam Award for excellence in children’s literature.

Moonbeam Award Winner 2021

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The Itinerant Teacher’s Handbook 3rd Edition

John Luckner, EdD & Carolyn Bullard, PhD

The wait is over – we are excited to announce the new edition of the Itinerant Teacher’s Handbook by John Luckner & Carolyn Bullard.

The Itinerant Teacher’s Handbook, Third Edition is a trusted, practical guide for professionals supporting students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Combining expert knowledge, real-world strategies, and personal insight, this edition helps educators navigate the technical and human sides of itinerant teaching. whether you’re new to the role or a seasoned professional, you’ll find fresh ideas and ready-to-se practices to support every student’s success.

All chapters have been updated with current references and resources.  New edition is available in downloadable format AND printed format with coil binding.

New sections include:

• Teaching is an Important Profession
• Overcoming Stress
• Addressing Data Collection
• Managing Paperwork
• Overcoming Lack of Administrative Support
• Using Your Car Efficiently
• Dealing with Criticism
• Attachment and Relatedness
• Importance of Friendships
• Acquiring a Language Sample Focusing on the Functions of Communication
• Hierarchy of Functional Communication Skills Development
• Sample Activities for Promoting Speech Skills

Significantly Expanded Sections Include:

• Work-Life Balance
• Time Management
• Using E-mail Effectively
• Being Organized
• Language
• Functions of Communication
• Literacy
• Students who are Deaf or Hard of hearing with Additional Disabilities
• Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing who are Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
• Social-Emotional Development – Seven to Eighteen Months
• Interventions for Promoting Social-Emotional Skills

Print Edition:  8.5′ x 11′ | 349 pages | $69.00

Digital edition:  349 pages |  $39.00

Available now!

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For program coordinators, universities, colleges, or teacher preparation programs, please contact Brenda Wellen at brenda@success4kidswhl.com for your unique coupon code to purchase your review copy at a discount. One per program/university.  Review copies available in print only.

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Students receive, interpret, and internalize language presented in the auditory mode with hundreds of stimulus items arranged by discrete skill and level of difficulty.

Written in the best-selling format of the HELP series, these lessons:

Have Goal-Driven Activities
Have High Quality, Timeless Content
Appeal To A Broad Age-Range
Gradually Increase In Complexity Within And Between Activities
Have Application To A Wide Range Of Developmental And Acquired Disorders
The activities in this book develop functional auditory-linguistic skills that support language and reasoning. Stimuli require active thinking as well as processing. All of the tasks can be presented orally to the client or used as worksheets.

The book is divided into eight sections:

Word Classes: recognize and relate items by word class; identify word classes; build word associations; understand word classes for problem solving
Directions: identify important information in directions, information missing from directions, and the number of steps in directions; paraphrase directions; follow conditional directions
Details: identify specific information in directions; explain absurdities; correct factual errors; identify opposites, synonyms, pronoun referents, and details in statements
Information: determine what information is needed and sources of information; judge the quality of information; use information to make inferences and decisions; identify relevant information
Questions: answer questions about objects, word classes, and activities; choose appropriate questions; use questions to gather information
Sequencing: put information in order; sequence by physical features and historical events, identify steps in common events, sequence life events; understand sequences in paragraphs
Stories: identify characters, places, and times in stories; choose story titles; paraphrase stories; infer from stories; ask questions after listening to stories
Sounds in Words: recognize and identify initial, medial, and final sounds in words; identify like sounds and hard and soft sounds.

To see more of this product’s contents:
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Pages
• About the Authors

190 pages • 8.5 x 11 • softcover • ©1994

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The purpose of this book is to provide resources that will assist these students in optimizing their achievement through improved access and self-advocacy. Many publications provide information on supporting students with hearing loss who have academic or language learning needs. The information contained in this book targets the “expanded core curriculum,” or those skills that must be mastered in order to benefit from the core curriculum. This book is meant to be a practical ready-to-go resource for professionals who work with school-age children with hearing loss. Although applicable to students with hearing loss of all degrees, the information is especially pertinent to students who are mainstreamed into their neighborhood schools.

This is a valuable resource for professionals in training, new professionals and seasoned veterans. It also has almost 50 downloadable files for purchasers of the book (see Table of Contents).

Intended audience: Educators of deaf/hard of hearing, educational audiologists, speech language pathologists – the book has also been beneficial for family members!

“Your book, The Deaf Bible as I refer to it, has changed the way our DHH program supports our students and advocates for their learning.”

DHH Teacher, Florida

I LOVE the book, it is so helpful to me as a DHH Itinerant! Best, most concise and thorough collection of materials ever. A must for every Itinerant! DHH Teacher, California

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Guide to Identifying Educational Needs for Students with Hearing Loss

Teachers have been asking “Help me pull all of this data together into better assessments so my kids can qualify for services and more appropriate programs!”

Karen Anderson, author/co-author of Building Skills for Success in the Fast-Paced Classroom,
Building Skills for Independence in the Mainstream, and SCRIPT has joined together with Lynne Price, author of the Steps to Success Curriculum and COACH: Self-Advocacy Skills and Transition Training  to develop Steps to Assessment.

The focus of this 290-page guide is appropriate assessment practices for children from transition to school at age 3 through high school. Categories of assessment are presented, as are ways to tease out information from assessment results to illustrate how to identify needs to support eligibility.

A variety of assessments are described for each assessment area. Case studies are provided that show how the teacher can choose appropriate test instruments and interpret the results, including determining possible goal areas.

A section describing self-learning application activities helps readers to integrate the information into daily practice and makes this Guide the perfect subject of a Professional Learning Community.

Teachers who use this guide will have a much better understanding of the vulnerable areas of development due to hearing loss, how the areas interconnect, and ultimately how they are the experts in using the ‘deaf lens’ to contribute to their evaluation teams and service planning. This information will assist educators of the deaf/hard of hearing, educational audiologists and specialist speech language pathologists in being able to advocate with school teams for appropriately tailored assessment and program planning for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Informational handout describing Steps to Assessment to share with your Team!

Steps to Assessment: Guide to Identifying Educational Needs for Students with Hearing Loss $64.00 + S/H

5 copies of Steps to Assessment all shipped to same address (15% discount) $272.00 + S/H: Enter Discount Code: STEPS15 at Check-out

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Assessment Process

Chapter 2: Speech Perception and Device Use

Chapter 3: Performance Review

Chapter 4: Auditory Skills Development

Chapter 5: Prosody, Phonologic Awareness, and Morphology

Chapter 6: Language Processing and Use

Chapter 7: Social Interaction: Pragmatic Language Use and Social Skills

Chapter 8: Self-Advocacy, Self-Determination and Independence with Amplification Devices

Chapter 9: Students with Additional Challenges

Self-Learning Application Activities for Individual and Professional Learning Communities

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We recognize that only 1 of every 100 IEPs is for a student eligible for special education services primarily due to hearing loss or deafness. Yet many of the behaviors and learning issues experienced by students with hearing loss in the mainstream classroom are similar to those of students with learning disorders. Hearing loss is a communication access issue, not a learning disorder.

Meet Dazzle!
Dazzle wears bilateral hearing aids.  This cuddly stuffed Zebra is Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss’s own mascot.  We who work with students who are deaf or hard of hearing know our children are unique; they are zebras in a herd of horses. Dazzle stands 6” tall and comes with a red pullover and red ironed-on hearing aid decals. Safe to wash.

You can purchase your own Dazzle doll and Zebra decal for only $14.99 from August 1^st  to August 31^st  while supplies last!

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• Outlines skills and strategies to support parents and caregivers, including techniques for effective coaching, planning and reflecting
• Provides 47 one-page activities for families to practice early listening skills (Detection, Identification and Comprehension)
• Includes a simple form to track and follow up on progress
• Suggests conversations about each skill you can tailor to each individual family
• Offers practical, shareable resources in English and Spanish (ex: The Ear, Familiar Sounds Audiogram, Six Ling Sounds, Audiogram Basics, plus newly developed resources to promote early and consistent access to spoken language)
• Features Sweet Success! Using Daily Routines to Support Listening and Talking — a new tool for EI providers to help parents help their child become comfortable with hearing device use during all waking hours
• Includes a reusable dry-erase resource ring offering handy access to essential tools

Full digital access to the entire manual is included with the ELH purchase. A link to downloadable handouts to use with families is provided with each purchase.See video here

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Literacy Instruction for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing describes current, evidence-based practices in teaching literacy for Dhh students and provides practitioners and parents with a process for determining whether a practice is or is not “evidence-based.” Easterbrooks and Beals Alvarez describe the importance of the assessment process in providing on-going progress monitoring to document students’ literacy growth as a primary means to direct the course of instruction. They address the five key areas of instruction identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

In this concise guidebook, the authors present the role of assessment in the literacy process, an overview of evidence-based practices, and in the absence of such information, those practices supported by causal factors across the National Reading Panel’s five areas of literacy. They also review the evidence base related to writing instruction, present case studies that reflect the diversity within the Dhh population, and review the challenges yet to be addressed in deaf education.

Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• Current Practices
• Assessment for Reading Instruction
• Vocabulary: Word Meaning
• Vocabulary: From Phonological Decoding to
• Word Work
• Grammar and Text comprehension
• Fluency
• Closing Thoughts, Final Directions

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The primary goal of the Bedrock curriculum is to provide teachers of DHH) children with the necessary principles and applied strategies for effective literacy instruction. Most often, teachers of DHH students receive little in-depth training in this area in their college programs. Further, training rarely covers how to teach children who are bilingual, language deprived, or do not use the spoken language phonological system for the purpose of encoding/decoding print. The Bedrock curriculum recognizes these challenges and seeks to provide teachers with the principles undergirding effective English literacy instruction. While the principles discussed are applicable to all literacy learners, a special focus is on those DHH students who live in compromised language environments.  Additionally, the Bedrock approach discusses how to address topics such as beginning writing and reading with DHH signing students using a visually based rather than a sound-based phonological system. The Bedrock program presents teachers with strategies for their students so that they can develop a strong foundation for a lifetime of continued learning

Size: 9.5” x 11” x 1” Weight: 2 lb 6 oz

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Ideal for foundation courses, No Limits provides clear, concise and up to date information on maximizing student learning, planning and evaluating learning experiences, accommodating special populations, and getting started as a teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing.

It is such an excellent resource, and honestly, my course is designed around several key concepts it presents. I explored other texts earlier this year but couldn’t find one that matched up to the course objectives quite as well as this one does.

Features of the text include alignment with CEC-CED Professional Standards, quotations, chapter objectives, summaries, activities, many concrete examples, over 50 images, key terms, glossary, internet resources, and references

In order to become successful adults, students who are deaf and hard of hearing must be educated in K–12 school settings in which teachers use instructional approaches that promote learning. This book provides a comprehensive overview of specific educational strategies, techniques, and practices teachers can use in their efforts to enhance learning for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. These methodologies are drawn from several disciplines: deaf education, special education general education, and bilingual education. The book not only explains teaching practices, but also explains how to implement them by providing extensive examples and illustrations. The information is intended to expand the readers’ repertoire of educational options, enabling them to make prudent, effective choices as they plan, implement, and evaluate instruction for the students with hearing loss whose learning is in their hands.

Author: Carl Williams

Table of Contents

Part One: Maximizing Student Learning

Chapter 1: Facilitating Comprehensible Communication

Chapter 2: Selecting Instructional Models

Chapter 3: Teaching the Use of Learning Strategies

Chapter 4: Enhancing Students’ Motivation to Learn

Chapter 5: Creating Productive Learning Environments

Chapter 6: Collaborating for Student Success

Part Two: Planning and Evaluating Learning Experiences

Chapter 7: Planning Daily Instruction

Chapter 8: Evaluating Student Achievement

Chapter 9: Planning for Total School Success

Chapter 10: Promoting Smooth Postschool Transitions

Part Three: Accommodating Special Populations

Chapter 11: Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students with Additional Disabilities

Chapter 12: Teaching Culturally Diverse Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

Part Four: Pursuing a Career in Deaf Education

Chapter 13: Getting Started in the Teaching Profession

Glossary

Index

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