|
Scenario |
Equipment to Use |
Who Should Use the Microphone |
Lecture | Soundfield/CADS*; Personal Systems | Teacher |
Class Discussion | Soundfield/CADS; Personal Systems | Pass the microphones to each speaker. |
| Giving directions prior to independent or small group work | Soundfield/CADS; Personal Systems | Teacher |
| Small Group Work: 1 student with hearing loss | Personal Systems | Pass among the other members of the student's group as they take turns talking. |
Small Group Work: Multiple students with hearing loss all synched or connected to the same frequency or network | If students with hearing loss are in the same group, use the personal system.
If not, do not use either system. | If the students are in the same group: Pass among the other members of the student's group as they take turns talking. |
| Small Groups: Multiple students with hearing loss all synched or connected to different frequencies/ networks | Personal system with multiple transmitters*** | Pass between the leader and participants in the students' groups as they take turns talking. |
School Assembly or Special Visitor | Personal system; Soundfield/CADS or school PA system | Pass between speakers. |
| Giving directions for written tests | Soundfield/CADS; Personal system | Teacher |
| While students take written tests | Nothing | |
Traveling from one class to another | Student should bring the personal transmitter to the next teacher**. | |
Speech Therapy | Personal system or Nothing | If the speech room has good acoustics, HAT may not be needed. If, however, the room has a great deal of background noise then the Speech Language Pathologist should wear the mic; Pass from person to person if there are multiple speakers in a group. |
| Special Classes (art, gym, music, etc.) | Personal system to go with students**. | Instructor |
Standardized speech and language testing (ex: PLAI, PLS, Goldman-Fristoe) | Personal system | Speech Language Pathologist or Test Administrator |
Written standardized testing (ex: ACT, SAT) | While reading directions: Soundfield/CADS; Personal system
While testing: None | Test Administrator |
