Hearing and Kids

Today’s blog is written by my colleague Elizabeth Rosenzweig. Elizabeth Rosenzweig MS CCC-SLP LSLS Cert. AVT is a speech-language pathologist and Certified Auditory Verbal Therapist in private practice. You can find more of her writing at Auditory Verbal Therapy.   Explaining Hearing Loss to Family Members   Parents of children with hearing loss face the challenge of explaining their child’s

I had an experience this week that reminded me that too many of us work in silos. I have had double vision for years due to what we could have called a “wandering eye” if I were a little kid. I have seen lots of very good ophthalmologists to whom I complained about the problem but who had no suggestions.

I received an email yesterday from an audiologist who is just beginning to work in an educational setting. She asked whether I thought a newly identified four and a half year old with a mild to moderately severe hearing loss needed an FM system. She had asked colleagues their opinion. One said yes, and two said no – that the

Last week I had the honor of visiting London and, among other things, got to visit Auditory Verbal UK. (AVUK TM)  This is a wonderful center which has been very successful in mainstreaming children with hearing loss. One of the questions which often comes up is whether the cost of auditory-verbal therapy justifies the benefit. Those of us who work

The short answer is YES.   SLP Services for Children with Hearing Loss I value the work of speech-language pathologists. I am a speech-language pathologist (among a few other things) but I can tell you that my training as an SLP did not prepare me to provide high quality services to children with hearing loss. Why? Education of SLP’s –

I apologize for missing the last blog. I was in Mexico City and the earthquake happened. Internet was very intermittent, I could connect with my phone sometimes but not with the computer, and the chaos took over. I was there to speak at a conference run by the Aurea Auditory Verbal Center. I had arrived a day early and went

Ellen Rhodes and Jill Duncan have written an excellent new book:  AUDITORY-VERBAL PRACTICE: Family-Centered Early Intervention, 2nd Edition; published by Thomas, 2017. It will be appreciated by all clinicians in auditory-verbal practice, and others working with families. Even clinicians with many years of practice will find useful information in this book. The book is different than other books that deal

What do parents need to do to help make the school year successful? First, parents need to remember that they are the experts. You need to be involved in all decisions about your child. Professionals know a lot, but you know your child. In addition, you are the person who has the most invested in being sure that your child

The Joint Commission on Infant Hearing has set guidelines requiring that newborns be screened by one month, diagnosed by 3 months, and receive intervention by 6 months. With all the new data about the earlier the better, the Joint Commission is considering moving from the 1-3-6 model to a 1-2-3 model. I am certainly a fan of moving to the

School is out. Summer is in. What does that mean for children with hearing loss? There is a lot of data which shows that many children lose skills over the summer – children with typical hearing and those with hearing loss. So what should families do to prevent children from losing skills over the summer, and to be sure that