Elizabeth Cole, EdD, is the Director of Soundbridge, a statewide public school program that provides a wide variety of services to approximately 600 children (birth through secondary school) who are learning spoken language through listening. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hartford, and for the First Years program at the University of North Carolina. Prior to coming to Connecticut in 1996, Dr. Cole was a professor at McGill University in Montreal for 16 years, where she taught acoustic phonetics, language, speech, and aural habilitation courses to students in the Auditory-Oral (Re-)Habilitation and Education of Hearing-Impaired Children (AORE) program, as well as to audiology and speech-language pathology students. Most of her published articles, chapters, and books have been focused on how to foster listening and spoken language development in young hearing-impaired children.

Dr. Cole has credentials and experience as an audiologist, Auditory-Verbal Therapist, teacher of the hearing-impaired, French teacher, reading teacher, educational administrator, and professor. She has been working with children who have hearing loss in one capacity or another since 1973. Presently she is the Director of CREC Soundbridge, a statewide program that provides a wide array of services to approximately 600 children who have hearing loss and are users of spoken language. She is also closely involved as an Adjunct professor with the University of Hartford Master’s degree program in Aural Habilitation, and with the First Years program. Dr. Cole has published numerous articles, chapters, and two books, all related to helping children who have hearing loss learn to listen and talk.

Books By Author

• Children with Hearing Loss, Developing Listening and Talking, Birth to Six