Children With Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking: Birth to Six

Additionally, this new edition is expanded to reflect important and rapidly evolving changes that have developed in the past five years, including:

• Application of neuroscience research to our knowledge of the foundations of listening and talking (Chapter 1)
• Current information on vestibular function in infants and young children (Chapters 2 and 3)
• Essential technology updates (Chapter 5)
• Expansion of the discussion of types of services a child with age-appropriate skills needs to sustain a positive academic trajectory (Chapter 6)
• Building skills for independence and self-advocacy in young children (Chapter 6)
• Discussion of the use and efficacy of coaching and other parent guidance strategies (Chapter 10)
• Online access to user-friendly versions of the Framework for Maximizing Caregiver Effectiveness in Promoting Auditory/Linguistic Development in Children Who Have Hearing Loss (Chapter 10) and the Targets for Auditory/Verbal Learning (Appendix 3)
• Updated resources (Appendix 6)

This text is intended for undergraduate and graduate-level training programs for professionals who work with children who have hearing loss and their families. This third edition is also a valuable resource for parents, listening and spoken language specialists (LSLS), speech-language pathologists, audiologists, early childhood instructors, and teachers. Furthermore, much of the information in Chapters 1 through 5 and Chapter 7 is beneficial to individuals of all ages with hearing loss, especially newly-diagnosed adults.

Children With Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking, Birth to Six, Third Edition is unique in its scholarly, yet readable style. Numerous illustrations, charts, and graphs illuminate key ideas. This third edition should be a part of the professional and personal libraries of students, practitioners, parents, and all who are interested in listening and spoken language outcomes for children with hearing loss.