Online Course Detail

Professionals working in schools for deaf children are faced with unique challenges in providing services to children with cochlear implants. Resistance to aggressive auditory management and attitudes of indifference to spoken language create barriers to helping a child maximize the auditory potential of the device. This online seminar designed specifically for professionals in schools for deaf children provides practical information on the needs of children with cochlear implants as well as offer suggestions for enlisting the support of colleagues in environments in which sign communication is used.

This is a Recorded Course which requires either a Windows-based computer or a Mac with speakers/headphones to view. More information is available in the FAQs/Help section.

Length: 60 minutes

Cost: Free to View

Course Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify skills required for professionals to capitalize on the auditory access provided by the cochlear implant.
• Participants will be able to describe a child’s potential for expanding the constellation of direct communication partners as a function of their speech intelligibility.
• Participants will be able to recognize strategies that will facilitate enlisting the support of colleagues within schools for deaf children.

Course Instructor(s):
Ashley S. Garber, M.S. CCC-SLP and Mary Ellen Nevins, Ed.D., HOPE Specialists