The air is becoming cooler and crisper. The smell of pumpkin pie is floating through the air. Unfortunately, so is something else… STATIC! Static electricity has the ability to “zap” a cochlear implant processor, wiping out all of the MAPs and programming information stored within. Here are some tips to make it through “static season”Continue reading “Protecting Your Cochlear Implants from Static”
Category Archives: Elizabeth Rosenzweig MS CCC-SLP LSLS Cert. AVT
Fall Activities
Fall is here and with it come TONS of fantastic opportunities for listening and spoken language.
Sounds from Silence: Graeme Clark and the Bionic Ear Story
I just finished reading Sounds from Silence: Graeme Clark and the Bionic Ear Story written by Professor Graeme Clark, the inventor of the multichannel cochlear implant that today is the product made by Cochlear. It was a fantastic read, and I was so drawn in that I stayed up all night to finish the book!
Play It By Ear Seminar: Day Two
AUDITORY INTERVENTION IN ACTION Joanna Smith, MS, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT and Teresa Caraway, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT (both from Hearts for Hearing)
Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Reasons, Research, and Support
At the “Play It By Ear!” seminar, audiologist Jace Wolfe, Ph.D., CCC-A (Hearts for Hearing) gave lots of fantastic information about bilateral implants as part of a larger presentation on developments in audiology. The information was so wonderful, and bilateral implants are such a “hot topic” right now, I decided that this subject deserved itsContinue reading “Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Reasons, Research, and Support”
Play It By Ear Seminar: Day One
SETTING THE STAGE TO MAXIMIZE AUDITORY POTENTIAL: AGRESSIVE AUDIOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT AND USE OF HEARING TECHNOLOGY Jace Wolfe, Ph.D., CCC-A (Hearts for Hearing) The Joint Committee on Infant Hearing published its latest position statement on October 1, 2007. Some of the most significant changes are:
Don’t Wait for New Hearing Technology: The Time Is NOW!
One of the most common concerns expressed by people considering a cochlear implant is, “What about new technology? What about hair cell regeneration or fully implantable CIs? Is now really the best time to take this leap of faith?”
Tips for Improving Classroom Acoustics
Classroom acoustics are an important part of helping deaf student succeed in the mainstream. While the easy to clean tile floors and large open spaces of most elementary school classrooms make them ideal for the messy, experiential learning that is so crucial to development in the first few years of school, they also add upContinue reading “Tips for Improving Classroom Acoustics”
Chronological Age vs. Hearing Age
CHRONOLOGICAL AGE: How old a child actually is. Time since the child was born. HEARING AGE: Time since the child has been receiving auditory input through appropriate amplification. Time since the child received hearing aids and/or cochlear implants.
Why I Don’t Worry About Vocal Quality
This may sound shocking, coming from an Auditory Verbal Therapist, but I don’t lose sleep at night over whether a child’s speech sounds “deaf” or not. Yup. You read it correctly. Why???
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 