Overview

Day 1 will focus on Auditory Therapy with an emphasis on Literacy. Presentations will focus on identity, culture, and modality of deaf children and their families, a new era of reading achievement for children with hearing loss who use listening and spoken language. Also covered will be developing a higher level of literacy for children with hearing loss and evaluation and treatment for children with single sided deafness.

Day 2 will focus on Audiology with presentations to cover topics such as the amplification & audiological management of CMV, single sided cochlear implants in children, pediatric fitting considerations for non-surgical transcutaneous bone conduction hearing devices, and advances in hearing assistive technology for HAs and CIs.

Learning Outcomes:

• After completing this course participants will be able to:
• Summarize the possibilities and constraints offered by different social science concepts for thinking about deaf children and their families’ experiences
• Identify strategies to address areas of challenge in reading for children with hearing loss including strategies to develop reading fluency
• Summarize areas of strength and challenge in reading development for children with hearing loss who use listening and spoken language
• Describe the “fourth grade reading problem” and discuss ways to avoid it
• Describe the information required to fit transcutaneous bone conduction hearing devices (BCHD) to children
• Explain how to isolate the implanted ear from normal hearing ear for auditory training
• Describe current patient perceived benefits following cochlear implantation
• Analyze the progression of hearing loss in various cases of congenital CMV
• Discuss the importance of early identification of congenital CMV and the knowledge gained from early intervention outcomes
• Single Sided Cis – Outcomes
• Advances in Technology for HAs and Cis