Feel free to download and share this poster to raise awareness of the importance of cochlear implants. It may be used and shared for free in its original form with no edits and proper attribution.
In this post: EHDI’s 10 year history, parent grief, outcomes for children who are deaf-blind with CIs, teleintervention, and more. Read on!
Sometimes, tasks can be overwhelming and we let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I was having a conversation with a mentee the other day when she shared a wonderful insight with me: Just floss one tooth. We were talking about performing daily listening checks to ensure that hearing equipment is functioning well….
Forget the flashcards, ditch the drills. You can help children with hearing loss develop beautiful, natural speech skills through listening and play! This webinar will cover the essentials behind the theory of speech acoustics and how parents and professionals can use this information to use listening to develop speech. Best of all, there are no flashcards involved! You’ll…
Many auditory verbal techniques are not rocket science. They’re simple suggestions and tweaks to your everyday routines — little changes that can make a BIG difference in your child’s ability to listen and talk. What’s one of the hardest of these little challenges? Learning how (and when) to wait!
Arts and crafts projects are about far more the cutting, pasting, and bedazzling until your fingers are sore — they’re also a great way to work on critical elements and basic concepts (see explanations of these terms below).
The first steps to listening well are: a well-programmed hearing aid or Baha and/or well-MAPped cochlear implant(s) therapy (auditory training, aural (re)habilitation, Auditory-Verbal Therapy) from a qualified profressional practice, practice, practice
I would love to have a poster like this for our UCF clinic… Where would I obtain one?
Linda
Thank you for your kind words, Linda! If you click on the image, it pulls up a file which can be downloaded and/or printed. You are welcome to use the image without any alterations and with the original attribution intact. I hope it is helpful to the families you serve.
Elizabeth: I love, love , love this posted. Thank you so much for sharing it and making it available for download. I’m teaching a new course about listening and spoken language with children who have hearing loss and the impact that this visual will make for the listening unit is going to be great!