
Welcome back to our Rehab at Home for Adults series where you can learn how to reach everyday listening goals and improve your hearing. Today’s goal is about understanding conversations while in social situations.
Welcome back to our Rehab at Home for Adults series where you can learn how to reach everyday listening goals and improve your hearing. Today’s goal is about understanding conversations while in social situations.
Preschool and school-aged children receiving implants may have had some hearing, speech, and language before implantation. But even so, the time after activation is an adjustment period as they hear both new and familiar speech sounds. Here are some strategies caregivers can use to support their preschool and school-aged children to achieve success with their speech.
Welcome back to our Rehab at Home for Adults series where you can learn how to reach everyday listening goals and improve your hearing. Today’s goal is about understanding conversation in small groups.
It might be the first time that your child’s teacher is working with a student who has hearing loss or a cochlear implant. But as a parent, you’ve been learning and collecting information about your child’s hearing loss and device since their diagnosis. This puts you in the perfect position to support and offer advice to your child’s teacher. Here’s how to do it.
After cochlear implant activation, hearing your child say their first word is one of the early but powerful milestones along their hearing journey. But getting to that first word takes time, depending on many factors like how much access to sound your child had before activation. Here are some strategies that will help you lay a firm foundation to build your child’s speech through listening after their device is switched on.