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Integrated Language Intervention for Children with Hearing Loss

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Earlier generations of deaf children were educated with curricula based on models of learning that were hierarchically organized and modular, such that low-level perceptual processes operated without input from higher level processes or from other sensory systems. Information derived at each level of processing could only flow up in the system. However, research from a variety of sources is demonstrating that information flows more broadly in the nervous system, such that higher level processes can affect lower level processes and there is cross talk among sensory systems. Behavioral interventions that take advantage of these integrated systems facilitate optimal outcomes. This chapter describes an integrated approach to language intervention that can help shape educational and clinical treatments for all children with hearing loss, including those with cochlear implants.

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  2. Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Champaign, Illinois, USA

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Nittrouer, S. (2016). Integrated Language Intervention for Children with Hearing Loss. In: Young, N., Iler Kirk, K. (eds) Pediatric Cochlear Implantation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2788-3_20

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