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Spoken Multilingualism In Deaf Children

Sound Advice has posited that spoken-multilingualism is viable for infants with cochlear implants, whose good outcomes are from parent conversations after their implants are fitted. Two researchers in the US, Kate Crowe and Belinda Barnet, are exploring both these themes with countless families already knowing the two are closely linked in pedagogicial terms. Deaf Children Speaking Multiple Languages Researcher Kate Crowe,

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The Thirty Million Words In A Hearing Context

A recent review in The Hearing Journal of the Thirty Million Words book by Dr Dana Suskind (pediatric cochlear implant surgeon), confirms that the approach noted by psychologists Betty Hart & Todd Risley, equally works for infants and children with hearing difficulties. Infant Spoken Language Exposure Is The Key Suskind aimed to establish why children

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Spoken Language Intervention In Sri Lanka

Two infant-intervention centres in Sri Lanka are referenced here for families with children who are deaf and researching the spoken-language option with digital hearing-devices. CEHIC – Centre For Hearing Impaired Children Since 1992, the CEHIC in Dalugama has sent over 600 deaf children to mainstream schools in Sri Lanka after attending CEHIC from birth to

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Australia’s Listening And Spoken Language Focus

With almost fifty children graduating from Australia’s Shepherd Centre after learning to listen and talk from infancy, here are some reports about their start in mainstream education. Gearing For Mainstream School From The Start At the Shepherd Centre, many of these children learned to listen and talk with their families after their hearing issues were

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Cochlear Implants And Spoken Language Development

Several surveys on cochlear implants and spoken language development were published during August to October 2015, and are curated here for easy reference. Early Intervention For Deaf Children Remembering “a child learning to speak the English language must master 44 different speech sounds, cochlear implants and early intervention facilitate this choice for family life. Parents

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Australia Leads World In Teaching Deaf Children To Hear And Talk

Eighty-three per cent of 696 deaf preschoolers in Australia and New Zealand actively speak words at or above hearing-peer level, according to First Voice, whose group of centres teach deaf children to hear and talk with digital hearing devices. Read: Australia leads the world in teaching deaf children to listen and speak More details from the research are

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BabyTalk With iPads, Cochlear Devices And Telepractice

Families across the US are accessing BabyTalk, an online verbal deaf education program delivered by two leading California-based entities via email, teletherapy and telephone. Kudos to CNN for highlighting the value in remote service delivery (saving families time, money and relationships) by eliminating the need for round-trips to hearing-appointments. As Kathy Sussman, executive director at the Jean Weingarten School

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Early Hearing And Speech Services Benefit Childrens’ Reading

For the last blog post of 2014, here are some recent media pieces, to remind ourselves how early access to hearing and speech services can improve childrens’ life prospects. Lydia Denworth (author of I Can Hear You Whisper) Lydia Denworth’s recent post in Time Magazine, Raising A Deaf Child Makes The World Sound Different, will resonate with parents of

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eBook: Teach A Deaf Child To Hear And Talk

Sound Advice created an e-book, “Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak: Perfectly“ (A Father’s Love), by James Hall, whose daughter hears and talks with bilateral cochlear implants. Mr Hall contacted Sound Advice after four years researching how a deaf child can acquire speech, and documenting his findings. Click the blue image below, to

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Strategies For Effective Auditory Verbal Therapy

Babies whose hearing issues are detected at birth, who receive hearing-devices and who start auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) before their first birthday, can have age-appropriate language within six months, according to a recent webinar from Hear And Say (Australia). Founder, Dimity Dornan, presented Is Auditory Verbal Therapy Effective? to highlight the family-centred teaching approach of social skills and listening-based cognitive strategies. Meantime, The Hearing Journal noted in

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