In the United States, there are significant differences in insurance coverages from state to state, and even between plans from different insurance carriers. This information is intended to be a general overview with tips that may help in your particular insurance situation.
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What Does FAPE Mean?
FAPE stands for Free and Appropriate Public Education. Under United States law, students with disabilities ages three to twenty-one are entitled to a Free and Appropriate Public Education. What does this mean?
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Ear Wax
Yuck! Let’s talk about ear wax, otherwise known as cerumen, a gross fact of life that actually has some pretty incredible properties!
What Is a Decibel?
The decibel is a measure of the intensity (loudness) of sound. It is named for Alexander Graham Bell. Decibel is abbreviated dB. Humans with intact hearing systems can typically detect sounds between 0 and 140 (the point at which sound starts to hurt and becomes more “feeling” than “hearing”) decibels.
Tips for CI Surgery Day
You’ve had the pre-operative tests, filed (and/or battled) with your insurance provider, and selected the device. The big day is finally here… it’s time for CI surgery day. Here are some tips to make the big day go as smoothly as possible:
Mapping a Cochlear Implant
Mapping (or MAPping) is the term for programming a cochlear implant to the specifications and needs of its user. While any cochlear implant user, or parent, caregiver, or family member of a CI user, has probably attended countless mapping appointments with an audiologist, the process is often confusing or poorly understood.
Let’s Talk About Behavior
Discipline/behavior management is often the most difficult topic for professionals and parents alike. Children do not come with a user’s manual, and “bad” behavior can drive adults up a wall. Below are a few of my thoughts as well as some tried and true techniques that I have used to tame even the most trantrum-proneContinue reading “Let’s Talk About Behavior”
Sports and Hearing Loss
Having a hearing loss should not prevent a person from participating in sports and activities with his or her hearing peers. Here are a few tips and tricks to help make your or your child’s athletic experience fun!
Difficult Listening Situations
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
Telephone Practice
Being able to use the telephone represents both independence and connection for people with hearing loss. It means being able to make calls for work without assistance, being able to give and receive information, and being able to make emotional connections with friends and family from miles away. Learning, or re-learning, to use the phoneContinue reading “Telephone Practice”
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 