Children With Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking: Birth to Six. This item is unavailable.Children With Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking: Birth to Six

Comprehensive text dedicated to the thorough training of professionals working with babies and young children who have hearing loss. A framework for the skills and knowledge necessary to help parents promote spoken language development through listening in to their young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The book covers the most current information on hearing, listening, spoken language development and intervention for young children with hearing loss.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.

According to Cole and Flexer (both: audiology; University of Hartford and Kent State U. respectively) modern newborn hearing tests allow parents and professionals to identify hearing loss early enough to develop communication skills accordingly, rather than correct them during toddler years. Speech pathologists, audiologists, and special educators