DHH Specific Interventions
See-the-Sound Visual Phonics
STS-Visual Phonics© is a tool that may facilitate the teaching of:
Reading through the development of sound-letter connections and decoding skills;
Writing through the development of spelling and word study skills; and
Speech through the development of articulation skills speechreading skills.
STS-VP training is currently available through VNOC as an online training. A school division hosting an online regional STS-VP training may be invoiced directly by the VNOC See-the-Sound VP trainer and will be required to pay the trainer's professional fee. The school division would then be eligible to apply for 100% reimbursement of the trainer's professional fee for the online regional See-the-Sound Visual Phonics© training.
Center on Literacy and Deafness
The Center on Literacy and Deafness continues to address the need for interventions for the range of DHH struggling readers by creating three curriculum.
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Foundations for Literacy
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Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading
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Explicit Contextualized Vocabulary Instruction