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
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
Is it important that a child stacks blocks? Does it matter if a child does not find an object hidden in front of them? A child is becoming defiant. Is that ok? At specific ages, the answer to these questions would be yes. Even though these skills or behaviors would not be considered auditory development, they
