The effects of deafblindness vary depending on the degree of vision or hearing loss but can impact communication, mobility, and access to information. It is therefore imperative that teachers and healthcare professionals adopt a collaborative approach to ensure the best outcomes while addressing the diverse needs of individuals within this population.
The tendency toward early diagnosis and intervention for children with hearing loss requires diagnostic tools to assess and monitor early development. When providing intervention to young children with hearing loss, professionals need to be aware not only of speech and language milestones but also to monitor auditory development. Auditory skills are the basis for spoken
The MED-EL Adult Rehabilitation Kits (ARKs) offer guidance to professionals to provide hearing implant rehabilitation to adult recipients. In this article, we are sharing the final Adult Rehabilitation Kit (ARK) in our series. This resource contains a lesson plan, complete with suggestions for goals and activities. The kit also includes resources and ready-to-use handouts for
It is vital that caregivers provide rich, abundant language models to their children from an early age, as this has a positive impact on a child’s communication, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Hence, family members of children with hearing implants pursuing spoken communication are encouraged to speak to their child in the language or languages
How can I know whether a child hears a sound well enough to identify it? Which speech sounds do children typically master earliest following implantation? Is it ‘normal’ for a three-year-old to drop the final consonants in words? The Building Blocks of Speech is a friendly ready-reference tool that can help answer questions like these
Auditory working memory is the process of remembering and working with sounds previously heard and no longer present in the environment . As auditory information is received, it must be processed and stored for use as needed. Working memory serves as an interface between perception, long-term memory, and action . This process is key to
