General Tips

• Reduce your speech rate
• No need to shout
• Ask the student for tips
• Encourage listener to wear hearing aids, glasses or assistive listening device
• Check if hearing aid battery is working and increase the volume if necessary
• Keep your hands away from your face

• Reduce competing noises (close door to classroom)
• Make sure your face is free from shadows
• Face the student directly
• Converse in a well-lit area
• Take turns speaking
• Cue the student when a change in speakers or topic occurs
• Use amplification devices
• Give the child referential seating (in front off to one side so the teacher is on the better ear side)

• Face the student
• Get the student's attention
• Eliminate or reduce distractions
• Don't chew gum or eat while talking
• Look for puzzled looks from the students and rephrase

• Rephrase when repetitions are not clear
• Have only one person speaking at a time
• Supplement communication with gestures
• Enunciate difficult/unfamiliar words - do not mumble
• Speak slightly louder than normal;  do not shout
• Occasionally have the child repeat what you said