Children and Adults with Cochlear Implants

Catalog description

This course explores speech and language, academic, and psychosocial outcomes for children and adults using cochlear implant technology. Students will explore the technology, history, expansion in candidacy requirements, current research, expected outcomes, parental support, collaborative models, assessment measures and intervention methods appropriate to each discipline's scope of practice. This course is appropriate for teachers in general education, special education and deaf/hard of hearing specialization; audiologists and speech pathologists.