Cochlear implants have come a long way since they were introduced in the 1970s. Some of the most notable advancements of the last few years have had to do with how the audio processor, well, processes sound: technologies like Wind Noise Reduction, for example. That wording sounds great, doesn’t it? “Noise Reduction.” But what is the noise, and how does it reduce it?
We know many of you are facing the challenge of how to continue to develop your child’s listening and language skills at home. But did you know that we have 26 themed lesson kits that can be used to help develop your child’s skills?
Kristian Erickson from Alaska has one big passion: studying foreign languages. But his progressive hearing loss made mastering them increasingly difficult – until he got cochlear implants, that is! Getting hearing implants reopened a whole world of languages for him, something that came in handy when he traveled to MED-EL’s headquarters in Austria. We asked
“Expansion and Extension“ is another strategy you can use at home with your child to develop their use of spoken language. If your child is using single words, short phrases or sentences, the use of this technique can encourage them to use longer phases/sentences and more complex vocabulary.
Whether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner, fruit salad is a delicious snack for many of us! You can use the task of preparing the fruit salad as a useful activity to teach your child new words! Doing this task together helps to build your child’s language skills, and trains their motor skills at the same time.
When your child is first learning to put words together, it can be tempting to use simple words or sentences with them. Through using language strategies such as expansion and extension, you can encourage your child to learn new language.
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