At Heuser Hearing & Language Academy (HHLA), our curriculum is purposefully designed to support the Kentucky early childhood standards, while supporting young children who are DHH or have speech, language and communication needs. Every classroom is immersed in a language-rich environment that nurtures communication, builds vocabulary and promotes early literacy skills.
Learning Without Tears: Get Set for School
All our classrooms use a comprehensive readiness curriculum for preschool-level reading, writing, and mathematics that meets all state-sanctioned curriculum guidelines. Our Kindergarten class also uses the Phonics, Reading & Me and Handwriting Without Tears curricula and the additional kindergarten-level science and social studies curricula.
Foundations for Literacy (FFL)
FFL is an early literacy program for DHH children. While it is specifically designed for DHH learners, it is used successfully with our speech, language and communication needs learners. As a school that focuses on total communication, our application of this curriculum emphasizes inclusive language (verbal and nonverbal) development.
The Zones of Regulation
At HHLA, we use this social-emotional learning curriculum to support children’s development of self-regulation, resiliency and empathy for others’ emotions. This approach, which is based on the belief that all emotions are valid, is being incorporated into our daily routines and schedules through consistent visuals, terminology and information about prevalent emotions in all learning spaces.
Call Heuser Hearing Institute at (502) 584-3573 for more information or to schedule an appointment.