Difficult Listening Situations
The first steps to listening well are:
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a well-programmed hearing aid or Baha and/or well-MAPped cochlear implant(s)
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therapy (auditory training, aural (re)habilitation, Auditory-Verbal Therapy) from a qualified profressional
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practice, practice, practice
Get Off the Stage!
Are you making therapy happen? Can your sessions be heard in the next state because you’re speaking so loudly? Are you EX-AAAAAA-GER-RAAAAAA-TING the WORDS so LOUDly and unNATuraLY that even a person with typical hearing would have trouble deciphering your message? Do you leave the session sweating because of the song-and-dance routine you’ve just performed?
Troubleshooting Tough Times
What do you do when the going gets tough? Well, there’s not one perfect answer for every CI user or every situation, but here are a few suggestions to keep in mind during difficult times:
Books for Shared Reading: Choosing Them, Changing Them
Sharing books with your child is one of the best activities you can choose for growing pre-literacy, speech, language, listening, and social skills.
By carefully choosing books, and changing them to fit your needs, you can enhance the language and listening opportunities and help have a more successful interaction with your child or student(s).
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Don’t Be Too Good of a Listener
As parents and professionals who work with children with hearing loss, we become expert listeners and communication decoders. That endless string of syllables? We can interpret that! That mosh of real words and unintelligible phonemes? No problem, we’ve got it covered. With our familiar ears, we often know what our children want to say, even if an unfamiliar listener hasn’t got a clue.
You’re Not Getting Paid By the Word: Hanen Program Presentation
On Friday, October 8, 2010, I attended a presentation called “Parent/Caregiver-Implemented Interactive Language Intervention: Introduction to the Hanen Approach” by Toby Stephan, M.A., CCC-SLP. The presentation described the Hanen Program, a Canadian intervention designed to help parents of children with global language delays. The program, similar to a Listening and Spoken Language approach, acknowledges that parents are their children’s first and best teachers and, with coaching from professionals, can implement specific intervention techniques. (Note that the Hanen approach is for children with language delays for a variety of reasons, and is not specifically for children with hearing loss, like a AVT.)
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Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 