Karen Anderson, PhD is Director of Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss (http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com) which provides online resources, products and continuing education to parents and professionals. She has worked in clinical, public school and state-level (EHDI) settings to address the needs of children with hearing loss. Karen is a past president of the Educational Audiology Association and the Washington Speech and Hearing Association. She has been awarded the 2003 Fred Berg Award in Educational Audiology, the 2007 Phonak Cheryl DeConde Johnson award for best practices in educational audiology.
She is a highly acclaimed and popular presenter in the US and internationally, speaking to more than 50 audiences in the last 3 years. Karen is the author of the Preschool, Elementary and Secondary Screening Instruments For Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER) in children with hearing loss and the Early Listening Function (ELF), and is co-author of the Listening Instrument For Education (LIFE and LIFE-R), Children’s Home Inventory of Listening Difficulties (CHILD), the guidance document Relationship of Hearing Loss to Listening and Learning Needs, and numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Her recent accomplishments include publication of the new Steps to Assessment Guide to Identifying Educational Needs for Students with Hearing Loss, Building Skills for School Success in the Fast-Paced Classroom which is in the hands of about ¼ of the teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing in the US and its supplement, Documenting Skills for Success: Data-Gathering Resources. Karen is also author of the Student Communication Repair Inventory & Practical Training (SCRIPT), Building Skills for Independence in the Mainstream, and the early intervention guides Developing Child with Unilateral Hearing Loss and Achieving Effective Hearing Aid Use in Early Childhood.
Karen is also the coauthor of the Teacher Tools e-magazine that had almost 1000 members during the 2014-2015 school year. She can be reached at Karen@successforkidswithhearingloss.com