Through a program in Illinois State, audiologists, speech therapists and teachers of the deaf train in early intervention for children to learn to hear and talk with hearing-devices.
* VIDEO: Graduate program trains students to teach children with hearing issues
The joint training of multi-disciplinary teams is growing in the US, as more families choose the auditory-verbal approach for their children to use listening and spoken language (LSL).
Looking to the Irish context, preschoolers’ language skills deserve investment for clear reasons, with multi-disciplinary work by families, educators, audiologists, occupational and speech therapists making a big difference to the current generation of children in Ireland.
