Auditory Teaching of Children with Hearing Loss: Assessment to Intervention

Listening & Spoken Language

Intermediate

Self-Study

8hr 4min

Continuing Education

8.00 AG Bell CEUs
0.80 ASHA CEUs
0.80 AAA CEUs

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Course Outline

Course Overview

This course will thoroughly address the “learning to listen” process in teaching infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged children with hearing “differences.” Based on the premise that excellence in Audiology is the foundation of auditory teaching for listening and spoken language development, a review of basic speech and hearing acoustics and an audiology primer will begin the course. Description of a range of assessment tips, tools, and tests will reinforce the importance of comprehensive evaluation of a child’s level of auditory functioning, including when making use of his/her/their hearing aids, cochlear implants, osseo-integrated systems, and/or other assistive listening devices. The framework of auditory teaching intervention will be demonstrated with practical teaching ideas and techniques for infants and up, from awareness/detection of sound to auditory comprehension, to result in a child who has “integrated listening into their personality.”

Course Timeline

30 Days

Primary Audience

LSL Professionals

Key Outcomes

Describe the acoustics of sound and its application to the audiogram and other audiologic test findings and results.
Discuss closed and open set measures of auditory functioning with comprehensive understanding of the “hierarchy” of detection, discrimination, recognition, identification, to comprehension.
Detail the application transfer of assessment findings to the development of an auditory teaching model for intervention.
Describe auditory objectives, activities, and examples of therapy ideas for teaching and learning to listen and listening to learn for infants and above.

Course Outline

Auditory Teaching: History, Audiology, and Hearing Assessment
2h 2m
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Video(s)
1h 1m
- Historical Perspective of Auditory Teaching And Learning | 11m
- Audiology Rocks: The Foundation of Learning to Listen and the Development of Spoken Language | 5m
- Audiology Basics / 101: A Quick Tour of Audiologic Assessment | 25m
- Preparing families and Children with Hearing Loss (CHL) for Behavioral Testing Success | 10m
- Speech Perception: Introduction to Speech Audiometry And Speech Perception (No Could Not Test [CNT] allowed) | 10m
Live Session Recording
1h 1m
Speech Acoustics: So Cool & Assessment of Auditory Functioning
1h 56m
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Video(s)
56m
- Speech Acoustics: Fun and Applicable to Auditory Teaching | 5m
- Speech Acoustics / 101: A Quick Tour of Acoustics | 16m
- Levels of Auditory Functioning: Detection, Discrimination, Recognition, Comprehension (Erber, 1982) | 10m
- Other Models of Auditory Functioning (Pollack, 1970, Caleffe-Schenck, 1988; Walker, 2009; Others) | 5m
- Ling and Ling Six Sound Test: Acoustics First | 10m
- Ling Sound Test: Application – Theory to Practice | 5m
- Other Key Measures: IT-MAIS, ESP and Pattern Perception, 2-Picture NU-CHIPS, Closed Set to Open Set, Quiet and in Noise, and High- Frequency Emphasis Stimuli | 5m
Live Session Recording 2
1h
Auditory Teaching Lessons: Listening Levels & Laughter
2h 4m
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Video(s)
1h 2m
- Introduction: LSL Lessons for Infants on Up! | 5m
- Ling Check: Speech Perception Practice | 5m
- Detection Always: LSL Strategies “Listen!” and “I Heard That!” | 5m
- Learning to Listen (LTL) Associated Sounds and Beyond | 12m
- Increasing the Ante: Teaching Higher Auditory Levels (word/phrase level, sequencing, listening comprehension, inferencing, and more) | 10m
- Sing, Sing, Sing! | 5m
- Read, Read, Read! (Auditory Ideas, Story Modeling & Auditory Connected Discourse Tracking) | 10m
- MORE Lesson Ideas from YOU and ME | 10m
Live Session Recording
1h 2m
Auditory Teaching for Special Cases
2h 2m
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Video(s)
1h 1m
- LSL Lessons: Older Kiddos & Single-Sided Deafness, ANSD, Bimodal, Simultaneous & Sequential CI Recipients Teaching the “New Ear,” Others | 31m
- Putting It All Together | 15m
- Unanswered Questions | 15m
Live Session Recording
1h 1m

Featuring

Donald Goldberg
PhD, CCC-SLP/A, LSLS Cert. AVT
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Donald M. Goldberg, Ph.D., CCC-SLP / A, LSLS Cert. AVT, is a Full Professor at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He also serves on the Professional Staff of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Goldberg's areas of clinical and research activities are focused on the auditory and spoken language outcomes of infants and children who are deaf or hard of hearing; notably with youngsters using cochlear implants and/or hearing aids. Goldberg is the co-author of Educational Audiology for the Limited Hearing Infant and Preschooler (1997, Pollack, Goldberg, & Caleffe-Schenck), along with numerous book chapters, and journal contributions. Dr. Goldberg's new criterion-based assessment tool for preschoolers through school-aged children who are deaf or hard of hearing, Test of Auditory Functioning (TAF), was recently published by Blue Tree Publishing (September 2023). He is a Past President of both the AG Bell Board of Directors and the AG Bell Academy Board.

Financial Disclosures: Dr. Goldberg receives compensation from the College of Wooster as Professor. He receives compensation from Cleveland Clinic Foundation as a professional staff member. He also receives compensation from Hearing First for teaching this course.

Non-financial Disclosures: Dr. Goldberg is co-author of: Educational Audiology for the Limited-Hearing Infant and Preschooler: An Auditory-Verbal Program (3rd ed.). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

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