Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking, Birth to Six, Third Edition

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Product Description The third edition of Children With Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking, Birth to Six provides updated information from the previous two editions for both professionals and parents facilitating spoken language through listening (auditory brain access, stimulation, and development) in infants and young children with hearing loss. Also addressed is auditory brain development, audiologic technologies, auditory skill development, spoken language development, as well as family-focused intervention for young children with hearing loss whose parents have chosen to have them learn to listen and talk. Additionally, this new edition is expanded to reflect important and rapidly evolving changes that have developed in the past five years, including: Application of neuroscience research to our knowledge of the foundations of listening and talking (Chapter 1) Current information on vestibular function in infants and young children (Chapters 2 and 3) Essential technology updates (Chapter 5) Expansion of the discussion of types of services a child with age-appropriate skills needs to sustain a positive academic trajectory (Chapter 6) Building skills for independence and self-advocacy in young children (Chapter 6) Discussion of the use and efficacy of coaching and other parent guidance strategies (Chapter 10) Online access to user-friendly versions of the Framework for Maximizing Caregiver Effectiveness in Promoting Auditory/Linguistic Development in Children Who Have Hearing Loss (Chapter 10) and the Targets for Auditory/Verbal Learning (Appendix 3) Updated resources (Appendix 6) This text is intended for undergraduate and graduate-level training programs for professionals who work with children who have hearing loss and their families. This third edition is also a valuable resource for parents, listening and spoken language specialists (LSLS), speech-language pathologists, audiologists, early childhood instructors, and teachers. Furthermore, much of the information in Chapters 1 through 5 and Chapter 7 is beneficial to individuals of all ages with hearing loss, especially newly-diagnosed adults. Children With Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking, Birth to Six, Third Edition is unique in its scholarly, yet readable style. Numerous illustrations, charts, and graphs illuminate key ideas. This third edition should be a part of the professional and personal libraries of students, practitioners, parents, and all who are interested in listening and spoken language outcomes for children with hearing loss. Review With the availability of newborn hearing screening, the landscape of pediatric audiology and communication development has changed and continues to evolve. This book provides concepts that integrate knowledge and practice from audiological and educational perspectives....[Cole & Flexer s] book, intended for both parents and professionals, is written with enthusiasm from their experience about maximizing spoken language outcomes for families and their children with hearing loss. The language, illustrations and layout would be accessible to a wide audience. The book is very well referenced with over 36 pages of journal articles and texts for further reading.... Much attention is given to meaningful interaction and communication with discussion of parent-child attachment, shared attention (joint reference), turn-taking and communicative intent. Strategies to enrich the language environment for the child involve analysis of characteristics of caregiver talk, but also sensitive awareness of the emotional state of parents and understanding the preferred learning styles of parents. This is useful for parents and professionals to consider together... --Lois Grant, Audiology Now (2016) Each chapter features small anecdotal inserts or sketched-style images which help break down the science. The book recognises the changes that have occurred in audiology following the advent of universal newborn h