The Tucker-Maxon School
Babies, Toddlers and Their Families
This is a new generation of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Babies can now be identified at birth and begin wearing hearing aids while still in the crib. Babies with severe to profound losses receive cochlear implants at younger and younger ages – twelve months and below! These babies and their families urgently need training to use this new technology. At Tucker-Maxon Schoool, a collaborative, family-centered approach develops a child’s listening and spoken language abilities whlwe supporting the family in providing a language-rich environment at home.
The years from birth to three are critical for babies as they learn to listen to the world around them. What parents and their baby do now will impact the development of listening, talking and even reading later on.
The Tucker-Maxon School offers:
Tucker-Maxon offers a wide range of services for infants and toddlers and their families. Teachers assisgned to the Early Intervention Program are Listening and Spoken Language Specialists certified in Auditory Verbal practice (LSLS AVEd). At Tucker-Maxon, our teachers:
- Meet weekly with the family at home or at school
- Learn about each child from his or her family
- Help the family use daily activities and routines to teach their child
- Attend audiology appointments with the family and the school’s on-site audiologist for diagnostics, hearing aid recommendations, and cochlear implant mapping
- Help parents maintain consistent access to sound for their child by establishing full-time hearing aid or cochlear implant use
- Help families learn to integrate listening in interactions with their child
- Provide the child with early and specific education in auditory learning and spoken language to set the stage for reading and academic achievement
- Facilitate a regularly-scheduled play group that also includes children with typical hearing and their parents
- Provide information and lead discussions on such topics as hearing loss, hearing aids, cochlear implants, listening, language learning and child development
- Guide the family to become comfortable advocating for what they believe is best for their child
If your baby has been diagnosed with a hearing loss, what should you do next? Call the Tucker-Maxon School at 503-2335-6551. We would be happy to talk with you about your baby. Come and visit our school. We are here to answer your questions and show you how we can help you begin this journey.
School district contracts are welcome as well as private enrollments. For families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing enrolling privately, financial assistance is available based on demonstrated need. The first six months of Tucker-Maxon’s Early Intervention Program is provided AT NO COST to families.
We would love to give you a tour of our school or answer any questions you may have. At Tucker-Maxon
School, we make once impossible things now possible.
Call (503) 235-6551 or email psmith@tmos.org