Teaching · Special Education

A microphone only helps if it works today.

Tick off the setup, run the daily check and count the week’s problems. The checklist shows what is missing and which fix to try first.

Check a systemWhat you get
$5one-time · every device you sign in on
Buy · $5

Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The listening system check

One check per student and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Setup and daily steps done, what is still to set up, the week’s problems and the fix to try first.
Who it is for
Teachers of students who are deaf or hard of hearing, educational audiologists, classroom teachers and paraprofessionals.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved check per student and date; printed for the classroom or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
the teacher’s voice, straight to the ear
Drawn for this page. A remote microphone skips the distance and the classroom noise, but only when it is charged, paired and checked.

How to use it

  1. Choose the system and the student’s devices.
  2. Work through setup with the audiologist’s instructions.
  3. Run the daily routine, starting with a listening check.
  4. Tap in each problem as it happens during the week.
  5. Copy the check forward each week and try the fix it names.

Check a system

Why each step matters

The daily check

IDEA requires each school to make sure the hearing aids of students who are deaf or hard of hearing, and the external components of surgically implanted devices, are functioning properly (34 CFR 300.113). A morning listening check through the system is the simple way to do it.

Mic placement

A remote microphone works best close to the talker’s mouth, about 6 inches, so the voice is loud compared with room noise. On a lanyard it swings and the level changes.

What this is not

Fitting or programming. Settings belong to the educational audiologist.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.113: routine checking of hearing aids and external components of surgically implanted medical devices.
  2. American Academy of Audiology (2008, rev. 2011). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Remote Microphone Hearing Assistance Technologies for Children and Youth from Birth to 21 Years.
  3. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Practice Portal: Hearing assistance technology and classroom acoustics.
  4. Educational Audiology Association, Classroom listening checks and hearing technology management (resources for schools).

The example student is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.