Helpful information for parents of newly diagnosed hearing-impaired children

This paper presents an information booklet for parents of newly diagnosed hearing-impaired children. The booklet provides basic supplemental information to aid parents in understanding hearing impairment, audiologic information, and educational options. Topics covered include audiograms, educational methods, hearing aids, cochlear implants, informational resources, communication strategies, and hearing health-care specialists.

Examination of parent support groups for newly diagnosed hearing-impaired children, birth - 5 years

This paper examines support groups for parents of newly-diagnosed hearing-impaired children and presents an outline for an effective parent support group.

Evaluating and re-developing a more comprehensive and useful needs based assessment tool for parents and teachers of newly-diagnosed deaf and hard of hearing children

The purpose of this study was to redevelop a needs assessment inventory for use by caregivers and professionals engaging in educational services for children who are newly-diagnosed as deaf or hard of hearing.

Implications of newborn hearing screening: counseling parents of newborns with hearing loss

This paper reviews parental reactions to their newborn newly diagnosed with a hearing loss.

Effective parenting in terms of language development

This paper discusses means of providing extra support for parents of newly diagnosed hearing impaired children to help with language development.

Case study: acquisition of Japanese in aural language by the four year old child whose hearing loss was detected when he was visiting in U. S. with his family

Access to thesis is restricted. Contact Archives and Rare Books. This paper reports the results of language training for a newly diagnosed hearing impaired Japanese child using methods from the CID parent-infant program.

A descriptive study of six children diagnosed aphasic with respect to the implications for their education

This paper studies six children with congenital aphasia and discusses various methods of instruction.

Evaluation of auditory-visual speech perception in individuals diagnosed with dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Auditory-visual speech perception testing was completed using wordandconsonant-level stimuli in individuals with known degrees of dementia of theAlzheimer’s type. The correlations with the cognitive measures and the speechperception measures (A-only, V-only, AV, VE or AE) did not reveal significantrelationships.