The student to teacher ratio is low, giving us the opportunity for daily one to one instruction. Our kindergarten program consists of hearing impaired children 5 to 6 years of age.
Children receive individual instruction in an acoustically conducive classroom environment.
The children attend HNH kindergarten in the morning and then, after lunch, attend their home district afternoon kindergarten program. In this way, the hearing impaired children get age appropriate social and language models to model their emerging spoken language. Weekly, the teacher of the deaf from HEAR in New Hampshire attends the afternoon session of kindergarten to assist the classroom teacher and help transition the child to mainstream classes. The teacher can help the child use learning strategies and assure that classroom modifications are put into place. Our kindergarten uses a theme based curriculum with strong emphasis on listening and talking embedded into every activity.