How Do You Know It Is Time to Move to a Cochlear Implant?
I have had some conversations recently with people who expressed concern about when to move to a cochlear implant. Some were parents who were concerned about surgery. Some were parents who felt that the child should make the decision and did not want to make the decision for the child. Some were therapists who felt…
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Please Let’s Test Speech Perception
Please lets test speech perception. I am hearing from so many speech-language pathologists, listening and spoken language specialists, teachers of the deaf and parents that their audiologists are not doing speech perception testing. WHY? What is the reason we use technology? The one and only reason is to improve understanding of speech. Technology makes sound…
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