What are today’s best interventions for supporting language acquisition and literacy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH)? This comprehensive textbook-and-DVD set brings the answers to life for tomorrow’s speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators. The newest addition to the respected Communication and Language Intervention (CLI) series, this important volume enlisted more than a dozen experts to present evidence-based intervention approaches, spanning the critical early years of language development through the complex reading and writing challenges of the school years. Chapters cover a continuum of available communication approaches—from auditory-focused to visually-focused to simultaneous use of speech and sign—while encouraging the use of individualized interventions to meet each child’s needs. To prepare professionals for decades of effective, evidence-based practice, the included video clips demonstrate how to implement assessments and interventions and work successfully with children and families. CUTTING-EDGE INFORMATION ON audiological assessments and technological interventions for childrenprinciples and practices for family-centered early interventionunderstanding, supporting, and coaching familiesassessments to identify intervention prioritiesTheory of Mindauditory-verbal therapy and phonological interventionssign language and sign systemsuse of the internet to deliver intervention serviceselements of supportive early education environmentsapproaches for optimizing reading and writing skillsstrategies for promoting social and academic success in integrated classrooms

What are today’s best interventions for supporting language acquisition and literacy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH)? This comprehensive textbook-and-DVD set brings the answers to life for tomorrow’s speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators. The newest addition to the respected Communication and Language Intervention (CLI) series, this important volume enlisted more than a dozen experts to present evidence-based intervention approaches, spanning the critical early years of language development through the complex reading and writing challenges of the school years. Chapters cover a continuum of available communication approaches—from auditory-focused to visually-focused to simultaneous use of speech and sign—while encouraging the use of individualized interventions to meet each child’s needs. To prepare professionals for decades of effective, evidence-based practice, the included video clips demonstrate how to implement assessments and interventions and work successfully with children and families. CUTTING-EDGE INFORMATION ON audiological assessments and technological interventions for childrenprinciples and practices for family-centered early interventionunderstanding, supporting, and coaching familiesassessments to identify intervention prioritiesTheory of Mindauditory-verbal therapy and phonological interventionssign language and sign systemsuse of the internet to deliver intervention serviceselements of supportive early education environmentsapproaches for optimizing reading and writing skillsstrategies for promoting social and academic success in integrated classrooms

What are today’s best interventions for supporting language acquisition and literacy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH)? This comprehensive textbook-and-DVD set brings the answers to life for tomorrow’s speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators. The newest addition to the respected Communication and Language Intervention (CLI) series, this important volume enlisted more than a dozen experts to present evidence-based intervention approaches, spanning the critical early years of language development through the complex reading and writing challenges of the school years. Chapters cover a continuum of available communication approaches—from auditory-focused to visually-focused to simultaneous use of speech and sign—while encouraging the use of individualized interventions to meet each child’s needs. To prepare professionals for decades of effective, evidence-based practice, the included video clips demonstrate how to implement assessments and interventions and work successfully with children and families. CUTTING-EDGE INFORMATION ON audiological assessments and technological interventions for childrenprinciples and practices for family-centered early interventionunderstanding, supporting, and coaching familiesassessments to identify intervention prioritiesTheory of Mindauditory-verbal therapy and phonological interventionssign language and sign systemsuse of the internet to deliver intervention serviceselements of supportive early education environmentsapproaches for optimizing reading and writing skillsstrategies for promoting social and academic success in integrated classrooms