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Using Test Results to Plan Management

November 13, 2018November 16, 2018Jane Madell Leave a comment Speech Perception / Speech String Bean

Is the child hearing normal conversation? If a child has good speech perception at normal conversational levels (45-50 dBHL) than we expect the child will hear well when 3-6 feet from the person who is speaking and when it is quiet. If she cannot hear well when close to the talker she will have…

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What Does Intelligible Speech Look Like?

January 23, 2018January 26, 2018Jane Madell Audibility / Audiological evaluation / Auditory Verbal Therapy / Cochlear Implants / developing language / Jane Madell / literacy / Pediatric Audiology / Phonemes / Speech banana / Speech String Bean

Malcolm Gladwell reports that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to learn something new. Hart and Risley report that typical children hear about 46 million words by age 4. Dehaene reports that a child needs 20,000 hours of listening as a basis for reading. Pittman reports that children with hearing loss require three times the…