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.
Music can positively affect a child’s whole development since it allows them to develop a wide range of skills. These include communication, listening, language, cognitive, fine and gross motor, social and emotional, and creative skills. For children who use cochlear implants, music may also provide additional benefits. Higher perceptual demands and greater precision are required
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
