• Website Designed for YOU- the Mainstream Teacher
  
• PEP Net- Resource Kit for Itinerant Teachers- via the web!!!
• Article from About.com: A child with a Cochlear Implant is Coming to Your Class
  
• Article: Effective Communication with People with Hearing Loss
  
• Article: Hard of Hearing Students in the Mainstream
  
• Phonak: How we Hear
• "What Helen Keller Knew" article
• Simulated hearing loss on Better Hearing Institute's web site
  
• How the Ear Works (Discovery website- scroll down to EARS)
• Video about How we hear and hearing loss.
• Tips from Rochester Institute for the Deaf
  

Many classrooms are still not carpeted. To reduce noise and make it easier for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing student to hear, in the past people have cut tennis balls to muffle the sound of scraping chairs and desks. There is a new product from teacherdirect called fuzzy feet. No more slicing tennis balls!!