Children who are deaf or hard of hearing must be given every opportunity to communicate effectively. Effective use of residual hearing plays a crucial role in the communication process. Maximizing the hearing-impaired child's use of his/her remaining hearing requires a substantial commitment of time, energy, and resources on the part of the school.

Lake Drive School has made that commitment and offers its students the services of full-time educational audiologist and audiological technician, and those of a part-time consulting audiologist and hearing aid dispenser. State of the art equipment enables Lake Drive to provide comprehensive audiologic evaluations, tests of middle ear function, electro-acoustic analysis of hearing aids and real ear measures.

Assistive devices, including personal and sound field FM Systems and Tactaids, are available to all students able to derive benefit from them. Cochlear Implants, hearing aids and FM Systems are monitored in each classroom on a daily basis and a cumulative record of amplification system performance is maintained for each student.

In-service instruction is provided at the start of each school year in order to insure that all classroom paraprofessionals are familiar and comfortable with the daily monitoring process. Each classroom is equipped with a hearing aid kit including a listening tube, forced air blower, and extra batteries. FM supplies are stocked in the Audiology office.