A cochlear implant can help your child to hear sounds, but to listen to them—that’s an important skill that’s worth developing. Listening skills develop in stages, and like any other skill, practice can make perfect. This is where you come in: you can help your child to develop his or her listening skills. Your child
A cochlear implant can help your child to listen and communicate in amazing ways, but like everybody sometimes your child might find it hard to communicate in a conversation. Often this is because your child, or the person he or she is communicating with, just doesn’t understand what’s being said. So, when you’re talking with
If your child was born with a significant sensorineural hearing loss, a cochlear implant can be one of the best ways to help them connect with the world of sound. Because every child’s hearing loss is different, each will hear and develop differently after receiving a cochlear implant. So to help you understand more about
An experience book is like a diary, except it is made for you and your child to read together. For a child with hearing loss, an experience book can be a very valuable tool for learning and practicing the listening and communication skills that he or she will use throughout life. They’re easy to put
Last week we talked about what “hearing-age-appropriate language” is, and now we’ve got three different activities that you can play with your child around dinner time—each of which is intended to build communication skills for a different hearing age: For a Child Beginning to Listen and Speak For More Advanced Listeners For Expert Listeners and
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