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.

Global Foundation for Children With Hearing Loss

This week’s Blog post was written by my good friend Paige Stringer. Paige is a founder and Executive Director of the Global Foundation for Children With Hearing Loss and has done an unbelievable job in building services for deaf children learning listening and spoken language in a place where services were not available. Born with a profound hearing loss, she

On the Road to Ho Chi Minh City

This week’s Blog is written by my friend and colleague Lillian Henderson. She earned a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina in speech pathology and is an LSLS Certified Auditory Verbal Therapist. Lillian is the lead speech pathologist for the University of North Carolina School of Medicine’s Pediatric Cochlear Implant team. She has worked with cochlear implant recipients for the

Some really good old books

There are some really good old books out there that it would be terrific if young clinicians could read. One of my favorites is Auditory Disorders in School Children, written by Helmer Myklebust and published in 1954 by Grune and Stratton. Myklebust, a psychologist, was a professor of Audiology and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University and Director of the Children’s Hearing

Incidental hearing

Unfortunately, the world is a noisy place. That’s bad enough for a child with normal hearing, but it is absolutely dreadful for a child with a hearing loss. Why? Well, children learn more than 80% of what they know through incidental learning. That means they learn by overhearing things around them. We all have had experiences when we said something

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Parent Activities for Children with Hearing Loss

Having a child with any disability is overwhelming. Hearing loss is no exception. Having a typical child is an enormous amount of work, as any parent can tell you, so the stress of having a child who requires extra work is understandable. For parents who choose listening and spoken language for their children with hearing loss there are some things

Educating Deaf Children in Vietnam

I have just returned from spending 3 weeks in Vietnam working with the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss (www.childrenwithhearingloss.org). This was my second visit with this group. We went to a teacher training university, a children’s hospital and an early intervention center. Let me start by saying that things are very different in Vietnam. Please go to the Global

Audiology in Vietnam

I have just returned from spending 3 weeks in Vietnam working with the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss. This was my second visit with this group. We visited a teacher training university, a children’s hospital and an early intervention center. Let me start by saying that things are very different in Vietnam, as they are in many places in

Best of Hearing and Kids: Early Childhood Deafness – Past, Present and Future

This edition of Hearing and Kids, is written by David Luterman. David was my first audiology professor, he gave me my first job as an audiologist when he started the Thayer-Lindsey Nursery for Deaf Children, and he continues to be my mentor. I attribute much of my success in pediatric audiology to David. When I first worked with David, I walked

Determining if a Child With Hearing Loss Needs Therapy

How do we decide if a child with hearing loss needs therapy? Schools may perform speech language evaluations and psycho-educational evaluations to determine if a child is in need of any services outside of the classroom. If the evaluations are performed well and interpreted well this may be a good way to make the decision. However, it is CRITICAL that

Readers’ Choice 2012: How Do We Know What a Kid With Hearing Loss Needs In School?

Everyone who works with children with hearing loss knows that, even with all the great technology that is available today, kids still need help. Because the technology is so good, school staff members sometimes think that kids do not need any help. I have had school staff tell me that now that a child has a cochlear implant he is