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Along with positive behavioral intervention to prevent challenging behavior, it is also critical to provide children with a high-quality supportive environment, foster self-regulation and make sure a child’s hearing aid or hearing implant is working correctly so that they can best hear all of the sounds of speech.
Newborn hearing screening and early intervention have improved the spoken language outcomes for children with severe-to-profound hearing loss. Children diagnosed early are presenting at school with significantly larger vocabularies than those diagnosed later, and those diagnosed early tend to have vocabularies almost as large as those of their hearing peers. Despite these improvements, phonological awareness