Jim Durkel’s Advice on Sensory Efficiency Listening Skills
Jim Durkel is an outreach teacher at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI). He started his professional life as a speech-language pathologist and audiologist. Jim worked in public schools, at the University of Texas at Austin, and for a regional education service center as a speech-language pathologist and audiologist. During that time, he always had students with both hearing and vision loss on his caseloads. In 1987, he came to TSBVI to work with the Outreach Program in the area of deaf-blindness.
After several years with TSBVI, he returned to college to take the coursework necessary to become certified as a teacher of students with visual impairments. He is currently part of the Outreach Program, but he has taught elementary, middle school, and high school students at TSBVI. He remains very interested in how all students with vision loss use their hearing and listening skills.
Jim’s Advice on Sensory Efficiency Listening Skills
- Three Things Parents Should Know About Listening Skills
- How Can Families Support Their Child’s Sensory Efficiency in the Area of Listening Skills?
- What Can Families Do at Home to Support Their Child’s Listening Skills?
- What Should Professionals Do to Help Reinforce Listening Skills?
- What Are the Benefits of a Parent/Professional Collaboration Related to the Expanded Core Curriculum?