Overview

Written by Drs. Cole and Flexer in response to the crucial need for a comprehensive text dedicated to the thorough training of professionals working with babies and young children who have hearing loss, Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking Birth to Six provides a framework for the skills and knowledge necessary in helping parents promote spoken language development through listening in their young children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This new book covers the most current and up-to-date information about hearing, listening, spoken language development, and intervention for young children with hearing loss whose parents have chosen to have them learn to listen and talk. It is unique in its scholarly and thoroughly readable style. Numerous illustrations, charts, and graphs illuminate key ideas.

Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking Birth to Six is intended for graduate level training programs for teachers of children who have hearing loss, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists, but undergraduate speech-language-hearing programs, early childhood education and intervention programs, and parents of children who have hearing loss will also have interest in this new publication.

This new title is an essential addition to the personal and professional libraries of students, clinicians, and parents alike.

This title is also available in a Danish translation.

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Review

• Susan Naeve-Velguth (Dept. of Communication Disorders, Central Michigan University), International Journal of Audiology, (2009):
  "... Well written, organized, and easy to read. Key points are presented at the beginning of each chapter, 'takeaway messages' and summaries are used to emphasize important concepts throughtout the text, and supplementary and resource information are provided in four appendices."

Audience

Primary Subject: Pediatrics
Secondary Subject: Audiology / Pediatrics
Secondary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Pediatrics
Audience Level: Textbook - Desk Copy

• Introduction.
• Neurological Foundations of Listening and Talking
• The Auditory System
• Hearing and Hearing Loss in Infants and Children
• Diagnosing Hearing Loss
• Hearing Aids, Cochlear Implants, and FM Systems
• Intervention Issues
• Auditory "Work"
• Spoken Language Learning
• Constructing Meaningful Communication
• Interacting in Ways that Promote Listening and Talking
• APPENDICES.
• References.
• Glossary of Terms.
• Index.

About The Authors

Elizabeth Cole, Ed.D.

Elizabeth Cole, EdD, is the Director of Soundbridge, a statewide public school program that provides a wide variety of services to approximately 600 children (birth through secondary school) who are learning spoken language through listening. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hartford, and for the First Years program at the University of North Carolina. Prior to coming to Connecticut in 1996, Dr. Cole was a professor at McGill University in Montreal for 16 years, where she taught acoustic phonetics, language, speech, and aural habilitation courses to students in the Auditory-Oral (Re-)Habilitation and Education of Hearing-Impaired Children (AORE) program, as well as to audiology and speech-language pathology students. Most of her published articles, chapters, and books have been focused on how to foster listening and spoken language development in young hearing-impaired children.

Dr. Cole has credentials and experience as an audiologist, Auditory-Verbal Therapist, teacher of the hearing-impaired, French teacher, reading teacher, educational administrator, and professor. She has been working with children who have hearing loss in one capacity or another since 1973. Presently she is the Director of CREC Soundbridge, a statewide program that provides a wide array of services to approximately 600 children who have hearing loss and are users of spoken language. She is also closely involved as an Adjunct professor with the University of Hartford Master’s degree program in Aural Habilitation, and with the First Years program. Dr. Cole has published numerous articles, chapters, and two books, all related to helping children who have hearing loss learn to listen and talk.

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Carol Flexer, Ph.D.

Carol Flexer received her doctorate in audiology from Kent State University in 1982. She was at the University of Akron for 25 years as a distinguished professor of audiology in the School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Special areas of expertise include pediatric and educational audiology. She continues to lecture extensively nationally and internationally and has authored more than 150 publications. She has co-edited four books: How the Student with Hearing Loss Can Succeed in College, 1st and 2nd ed., and Sound-Field Amplification: Theory and Practical Applications, 1st and 2nd ed. She also has authored Facilitating Hearing and Listening in Young Children, 1st and 2nd ed. She is a past president of the Educational Audiology Association, a past board member of Auditory-Verbal International (Cert.Avt), and a past president of the American Academy of Audiology. Currently, she is a board member of the American Academy of Audiology Foundation, and president of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Academy for Listening and Spoken Language. For her research and advocacy for children with hearing loss, Dr. Flexer received the Volta Award, the most prestigious award conferred by The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Dr. Flexer also is a Certified Laughter Leader.

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