Bruce Street School for the
Deaf
Phonic Ear
Hearing Aid |
Hearing-impaired children from preschool (age 3) through age 15 attend Bruce Street School. Bruce Street School offers the only full-day preschool program in the entire area. Preschool students are exposed to a full-day of learning activities each of which emphasizes speech and language development. Many of the students at Bruce Street School are prelingually deaf, with severe to profound hearing losses. Bruce Street also serves students who are hard-of-hearing. Class size averages 8 students. This allows each student to receive the maximum individual teaching attention. All subjects are taught utilizing the Total Communication philosophy, which stresses speech and speechreading, auditory training, sign language and fingerspelling. All information is transmitted both auditorily and through sign language. Students are expected to respond using speech and signs simultaneously. Students receive a full-range of audiological services on-site by a certified audiologist, also skilled in sign language. The audiological suite includes equipment such as a sound-reduced booth and impedance bridge testing. Auditory amplification is available to all students in all situations inside and out of the classroom during the school day through the Phonic Ear wireless FM auditory training system. |
