Jane Madell

Jane Madell, PhD, has a consulting practice in pediatric audiology. She is an audiologist, speech-language pathologist, and LSLS auditory verbal therapist, with a BA from Emerson College and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Her 45+ years experience ranges from Deaf Nursery programs to positions at the League for the Hard of Hearing (Director), Long Island College Hospital, Downstate Medical Center, Beth Israel Medical Center/New York Eye and Ear Infirmary as director of the Hearing and Learning Center and Cochlear Implant Center. Jane has taught at the University of Tennessee, Columbia University, Downstate Medical School, and Albert Einstein Medical School, published 7 books, and written numerous books chapters and journal articles, and is a well known international lecturer.

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Hearing Aid Battery Dangers

by Dr. Lisa Klop As hearing aids continue to shrink in size, their batteries have kept pace. Small “button” batteries can easily be swallowed by pets and small children, and even adults have done so by accident. Depending on the type of battery involved, ingestion can simply require waiting for nature to take its course ― or become a life-threatening

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Dizziness and Balance Problems in Children

According to an article in Science Daily, (Dizziness) more than 1 in 20 children between the ages of 3 and 17 have dizziness and balance problems. The percent of children with dizziness with problems increases with age: 4.1% in children 3-5; 3.6% of children 6-8; 6% of children 12-14 and 7.5% of children 15-17. Girls have a higher prevalence of

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SLP. TOD. Ed.Aud, AVT – Who Does What?

Children with hearing loss in mainstream schools receive services from a number of different professionals. In some schools, services are available from educational audiologists, teachers of the deaf, and speech-language pathologists, but not in all schools. Almost every school has a speech language pathologist available, at least part time – and they may or may not have experience working

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Listening and Fatigue

Everyone who works with children with hearing loss is aware that children with hearing loss come home from school more tired then their peers. Unfortunately, we do not always pay enough attention to this fact. Why are they more tired? What causes it? What effect can it have on academics? What can we do about it? Bess, Gustafson, and Hornsby

Talk, Talk, Talk

Children learn language by being exposed to it. Children who hear Russian learn Russian. Children who hear French learn French. Children who hear English learn English etc. There has been a lot of research that shows that the amount of exposure they receive significantly affects their language. Exposure to language Hart and Risley (Hart, B, and Risley, T.T (1995)

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What Makes A Good Pediatric Audiologist?

This past week I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the University of Wisconsin, where I went to grad school, and to meet with the graduate students to talk about what makes a good pediatric audiologist. In preparation for this talk I asked colleagues in audiology, speech-language pathology, listening and spoken language, as well as parents of children with hearing

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What an SLP Needs to Know When Working with a Child with Hearing Loss

Note: Today’s post is submitted by my good friend and colleague Sylvia Rotfleisch. Sylvia is an auditory verbal therapist in private practice in Los Angeles with many years of practice providing auditory based speech-language and listening therapy to children with hearing loss. Audition Hearing loss will impact the child’s auditory, speech and language skills. Check their hearing technology every time

Best of Hearing and Kids: Hearing Loss in Children Is a Neurological Emergency

While I am taking a week off during the holidays, I hope you enjoy this top blog from 2015. Hearing loss is the most common disability of children, worldwide. Every year, 670,000 children are born with hearing loss. Hearing loss cannot be viewed in isolation. Hearing loss causes problems for auditory brain development. When a child with hearing loss is

Best of Hearing and Kids: It’s Not the Same Old Deafness

While I am on holidays this week, I hope you enjoy this top post from Hearing and Kids in 2015. At the recent Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EDHI) meeting there was, as always, a lot of hallway discussion about auditory-verbal therapy vs sign language. Some of the deaf participants said that, in their view, asking deaf kids to

Language And Math

For many years now, I have heard concerns from parents and teachers about problems children with hearing loss are having with learning math. They are good at calculations but not good at word problems. I have been married to a mathematics educator (Rob Madell) for almost 50 years so I understand a fair amount about this problem. At an AGBell convention