Jennifer Graff, M.E.D., LSLS Cert. AVEd

Listening, Language, Literacy, & Academic Support for Children

A one-on-one practice that brings together auditory-verbal education and structured literacy so your child can listen, read, and learn with confidence. For families with children in preschool through 6th grade who have hearing loss, language delays, and working memory or executive function challenges. Serving families in Carmel and central Indiana.

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Licensed Elementary Education K-8; Deaf and Hard of Hearing · 21 years in the classroom · Structured-literacy trained

Listening. Language. Literacy.

Children I Work With

I know the worry that brings families here. I also know how much these kids can do.

Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Children with hearing loss

A child who is deaf or hard of hearing can listen, talk, read, and thrive with the right support. For families who've chosen listening and spoken language, these skills grow together — listening, language, and reading each building on the others. My work is to strengthen all of it together: helping your child listen with confidence, build the language that gives words meaning, and carry both into reading and learning at school. I'm here to help your family navigate how hearing loss can affect each of these — and to help your child become the reader and learner they're meant to be.

Build Skills for Reading and Learning

Children who need to build missing skills

I work with bright, capable children who are ready to grow as readers and learners with the right support behind them. Every child gets there on their own path — some are strengthening the skills that turn print into smooth, confident reading, some are building the language that makes words meaningful, and some are developing the focus, memory, and organization that learning depends on. I'm here to help your family see your child's strengths, build on them, and watch them thrive in school and beyond.

The Impact

Your Child, Growing into a Confident Learner

The goal is simple: a confident, capable learner who can handle the demands of the classroom and actually loves to learn. So much of your child's energy right now goes into managing the distance between what's expected and what feels possible. When that gap closes, that energy goes back where it belongs — into learning itself.

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Picks up a book on their own

Reading stops being a battle and becomes something your child chooses.

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Raises a hand in class

Because they are confident in what they know.

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Works through homework independently

Sits down, starts, and sees it through.

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What Reading Research Tells Us

The Science of a Strong,
Confident Reader

What Every Reader Needs

Reading is one of the most complex things we ask a child's brain to do, and decades of research show it rests on two strengths working together: understanding language — the vocabulary, knowledge, and sense of how words fit together that make a sentence mean something — and recognizing words, the ability to turn print into language smoothly and without effort. Every strong reader is built from both, and every child can grow in both with the right support. My work is to find which strength your child is ready to build next, and build it with them.

How I Teach

The work is one-on-one — and that isn't a limitation, it's the method. Your child gets a learning plan built around how they actually learn, not a generic curriculum. We move at their pace, with room to pause, back up, and rebuild a foundation whenever something isn't landing. Schools do important work, but they're built to teach groups; one child, fully seen, is a different kind of teaching. Same goal the school is working toward — a more individual route there.

Why It Fits Your Child

A child with hearing loss or learning differences who is learning to read — or reading to learn — needs more than a standard literacy program. A typical reading curriculum isn't built for these children, and most support focuses on one part of the work instead of integrating it all. What they need is a teacher who understands both how reading is built and how listening and spoken language shape the way a child learns to read — and who brings it all together through auditory-verbal educational practices. Families deserve a teacher who genuinely understands the whole picture. And every child deserves to read.

Listening, Language & Literacy Specialist

About Me

Jen Graff, M.E.D., LSLS Cert. AVEd

I've spent more than twenty years helping children learn to listen, talk, read, and grow into confident learners. I hold the LSLS Cert. AVEd credential, studied special education and elementary education at Vanderbilt, and earned my Master of Education of the Deaf from the Clarke School / Smith College program.

My training brings together two things that usually live in separate places: structured literacy grounded in the science of reading, and the work that helps children who are deaf or hard of hearing build strong listening and spoken language skills. I've worked with children in busy classrooms and one-on-one across the table, and I draw on both — meeting each child exactly where they are and building from there.

What drives me is simple: every child can grow, and the right teaching is what unlocks it. When I'm not working, I'm at home in Carmel with my husband William and our boys, Josh and Ben.

I'm the practice owner and lead instructor — a licensed Indiana educator in deaf and hard of hearing education and elementary education, an LSLS Cert. AVEd, and trained in structured-literacy methods grounded in the science of reading.

20+

Over 20 years of work with children in both classrooms and 1-1

How to Get Started

Most families start with a consultation. We'll talk about what's been going on with your child, what you've already tried, and whether the work I do is the right next step. There is no obligation — and if I'm not the right person, I'll often know someone who is.

Meet and Chat

Book a consultation: a short call to talk through what's going on with your child.

Make a Plan

If it's a fit, we schedule an initial session and begin building a learning plan.

Work Together

From there, we work together at the pace your child needs.

Take the First Step

Let's talk about
your child’s needs

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