I just received a report today from a general education teacher that her student received a score of 152 for her math MAP (Measures of Academic Performance) test this week, up from 115 in the fall. She just began receiving speech and DHH services this school year and her IEP team made an accommodation to allow her teacher to read the test to her.
If you are involved in the testing world, you may get the gist that "oral administration" is not a good accommodation for any test. You can't do it for reading because you are measuring reading ability. Anyway-when a student with hearing loss receives oral administration accommodations-they should not be given headphones and expected to listen to the computer speech. All students are individual, and some are okay to receive headphones, but most are not. Students with HL need a face so they can read the lips and listen to the voice at the same time-this is the best setting for them. This does not give them an advantage over other students, this simply levels the playing field.
