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
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
Since our Adult Rehabilitation Kits have been quite popular, we’re planning to release four more free kits throughout 2022. These new kits will all be suitable for adult as well as teenage recipients, and they each will have a sports-related theme. Theme-Based Aural Rehabilitation for Teenagers & Adults All of the Adult Rehabilitation Kits
Have you discovered the Adult Rehabilitation Kits? Developed to support you to offer effective rehabilitation sessions to cochlear implant recipients, the Adult Rehabilitation Kits (ARKs) target listening as well as cognitive and communication skills. They are easy to use and include everything you need for a successful cochlear implant rehabilitation session. As with our previously
