1. School-age children Who have hearing loss

2. Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 1997) mandates that the IEP consider the language and communication needs of the child and the need for assistive technologies.

3. Individualized Education Plan (IEP)

4. Individualized Education Plan (IEP) How were these domains addressed for the different children we saw in Mr. Cooper’s talk?

5. Audition Listening devices Assistive technology Classroom acoustics

6. Speech Children speak what they hear.

7. Speech Children speak what they hear. As functional hearing decreases Increase in segmental errors Increase in suprasegmental errors Overall reduced intelligibility

8. Speech Focus on phonemes “ch” example Focus on nasality Focus on prosody

9. Language Limited access to word learning opportunities Less “sparkle” Lack of adjectives and adverbs Lack of diversity in sentence structures The case of the missing /s/ Pragmatics

10. Language Literacy Reading Phonology::Orthography Writing

11. Therapy domains Communication between parent & child Understanding of complex concepts/discourse Vocabulary World knowledge Self-expression Growth of syntax and pragmatics Narrative skills Social competency