Children with Hearing Loss:

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ABOUT THE BOOK
Written by Drs Cole and Flexer in response to the crucial need for a comprehensive text dedicated to the thorough training of professionals working with babies and young children who have hearing loss, Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking Birth to Six provides a framework for the skills and knowledge necessary in helping parents promote spoken language development through listening in their young children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This new book covers the most current and up-to-date information about hearing, listening, spoken language development, and intervention for young children with hearing loss whose parents have chosen to have them learn to listen and talk. It is unique in its scholarly and thoroughly readable style. Numerous illustrations, charts, and graphs illuminate key ideas.

Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking Birth to Six is intended for graduate level training programs for teachers of children who have hearing loss, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists, but undergraduate speech-language-hearing programs, early childhood education and intervention programs, and parents of children who have hearing loss will also have interest in this new publication.

This new title is an essential addition to the personal and professional libraries of students, clinicians, and parents alike.

CONTENTS

• Introduction.
• Neurological Foundations of Listening and Talking
• The Auditory System
• Hearing and Hearing Loss in Infants and Children
• Diagnosing Hearing Loss
• Hearing Aids, Cochlear Implants, and FM Systems
• Intervention Issues
• Auditory “Work”
• Spoken Language Learning
• Constructing Meaningful Communication
• Interacting in Ways that Promote Listening and Talking
• APPENDICES. References. Glossary of Terms. Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Carol Flexer, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Akron and Northeast Ohio Au.D. Consortium (NOAC). Carol Flexer received her doctorate in audiology from Kent State University in 1982. She was at The University of Akron for 25 years as a Distinguished Professor of Audiology in the School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Special areas of expertise include pediatric and educational audiology. She continues to lecture extensively nationally and internationally and has authored more than 150 publications. She has co-edited four books: How the Student with Hearing Loss Can Succeed in College, first and second editions, and Sound-Field Amplification: Theory and Practical Applications, 1st and 2nd ed. She also has authored Facilitating Hearing and Listening in Young Children -- 1st and 2nd ed. She is a past President of the Educational Audiology Association, a past Board Member of Auditory-Verbal International (Cert.Avt), and a past president of the American Academy of Audiology. Currently, she is a Board Member of the American Academy of Audiology Foundation, and President-Elect of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Academy for Listening and Spoken Language. For her research and advocacy for children with hearing loss, Dr. Flexer received the Volta Award, the most prestigious award conferred by The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Elizabeth Cole, EdD, Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina is presently Acting Director of Soundbridge, a statewide public school program that provides a wide variety of services to approximately 500 children (birth through secondary school) who are learning spoken language through audition. 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 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.

AUDIENCE
Primary: Audiology

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