Auditory-Verbal Therapy Report

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Introduction
The Early Childhood School has recently experienced a drop in students enrolling for the auditory-verbal therapy program. This program is for children who received cochlear implants before the age of five and are in need of therapy to learn to how comprehend sound using the implant and communicate. There are currently seventy-three students enrolled in the Early Childhood School’s auditory-verbal therapy.
The purpose of this report is to propose incorporating total communication methods into the auditory-verbal therapy program to give parents another choice of communication therapy methods. The Early Childhood School should incorporate total communication methods into auditory-verbal therapy to give children to the opportunity to communicate with both the hearing and deaf world.
Cochlear Implantation
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The sensorineural hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities in newborns. “Permanent, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss of greater than 40dB is present at birth in approximately 1
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The device is an electrical stimulation of the auditory system that involves a microphone, speech processor, transmitter, and receiver (see figure 1). “In order to encode sound in a form that the brain can decipher, a cochlear implant system functions by first picking up sound from a microphone located on the speech processor worn around the ear of a patient. This sound is then digitized by the speech processor and sent to the transmitter” (Hossain 3). The transmitter is on the outside of an individual’s head and is magnetically connected to the receiver. The receiver is the portion of the device that is surgically implanted into the side of the head above the ear. The device bypasses the damaged areas of the inner ear, using the transmitter and receiver to directly send sound electrodes to the hearing