FTCE Deaf or Hard of Hearing K–12: specialist foundations study guide
FTCE Deaf or Hard of Hearing K–12: specialist foundations · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
This independent study page provides practice for FTCE Deaf or Hard of Hearing K–12: specialist foundations. Its editorial learning areas include Instructional strategies; IEP and IDEA; Audiology and hearing; Assessment; Foundations; Communication modes; ASL and Deaf culture; Language and literacy. The FTCE Deaf or Hard of Hearing K–12: specialist foundations study guide has 8 sections and about 3,056 words.
01Accessible instruction
Start an accessible lesson by separating its content goal from the language and participation demands. A science objective might concern evaporation, while the language demands include comparing quantities, describing change and interpreting a diagram.
371 words, about 2 min02IEP and legal planning
An individualized education program connects a student's present functioning, educational needs, measurable goals, services and progress monitoring. It is not a list of devices or a diagnosis alone.
377 words, about 2 min03Audiological foundations and technology
An audiogram represents hearing thresholds across frequencies; it is not a direct measure of intelligence, academic potential or a percentage of language understood. Frequency describes pitch, while hearing level describes the threshold relative to the audiometric reference.
384 words, about 2 min04Valid educational assessment
Assessment begins with the construct: what knowledge or skill is the team trying to measure? An English reading task, a science reasoning task and an ASL narrative task have different language requirements.
380 words, about 2 min05Historical and professional foundations
Deaf education has a history of competing assumptions about language, learning and who should make educational decisions. Studying that history helps explain why an apparently neutral classroom policy may carry cultural and linguistic consequences.
378 words, about 2 min06Communication approaches and individualized access
A communication approach is useful only if it provides the particular learner with meaningful access and opportunities to develop language. Begin by distinguishing a natural language from a system representing another language.
392 words, about 2 min07ASL and Deaf culture
American Sign Language is a natural language whose grammar cannot be reconstructed by replacing each English word with a sign. Space, movement, timing and nonmanual features can contribute linguistic information.
383 words, about 2 min08Language and literacy development
Literacy instruction should begin with meaning and accessible language rather than an assumption that all deaf learners share a fixed reading ceiling. Students differ widely in language history, instruction, hearing, vocabulary, background knowledge and additional needs.
391 words, about 2 min