SMALL TALK: Bringing listening and spoken language to your young child with hearing loss

by Ellie White, Jenna Voss

This outstanding book breaks down the important things today’s parents need to know and do — from first diagnosis to educational steps in the journey toward raising a listening and talking child. Chapters include tips (such as helping your baby or toddler ease into hearing device use and exposing him to language at home) plus easy to understand information on relevant topics such as pediatric hearing tests, IEP team roles, resources and more. This valuable resource doubles as a college textbook for deaf education and early intervention programs.

Topics pediatric hearing tests hearing devices accomplishing use of hearing devices during all waking hours listening and the brain fostering language and speech during daily routines IFSP and IEP team roles the importance of play and literacy educational placements and various resources Authors Ellie White, MS MAEd, CED and Jenna Voss, PhD, CED, LSLS Cert. AVEd offer more than 40 years of combined early intervention experience.

563 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 14, 2017

Reviews

[Kayla · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book needs to be updated to incorporate the importance of bimodal bilingual education for deaf children. If we could ignore the unique needs of a deaf child and force every single one of them into a listening and spoken language world it would probably earn 5 stars but unfortunately we can do better and so must this book. It was very helpful for understanding the process of learning spoken language so perhaps those without deaf children should read? But if you have a deaf child, you should supplement it with some education from the Deaf community.

[Clurr Shurwuud]

Skipped chapters 8, 19 & 2o

[Cameron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book itself was well written and easy for people not familiar with the world of hearing loss and hearing technology to understand.