Month: December 2017

7lzXPl6rYTE, Infant Hearing Loss, Hearing loss isn’t always a sign of getting older. Health experts at Lee Memorial Health System say it can happen at any age, even birth. One to two percent of healthy newborns are diagnosed with hearing loss. Even though newborn hearing screenings have been required by Florida state law since 2000, health experts say infants can develop hearing problems in the first three to six months of life.

Lee Memorial Pediatric ear, nose and throat physician Dr. Stuart Morgenstein says there are times when a newborn passes the hearing screening but develops hearing loss later. “Sometimes we don’t pick up the hearing loss until they are older and those kids are often speech delayed, showing behavioral issues, some have dropped grades in school.”

He says it’s important to notice how a child responds to noise within the first three to six months. “Does the baby startle? Does the baby turn its head to loud sounds? After a few months the baby should be responding to familiar voices. By 15 months they should be saying single words.”

“If the child shows signs of hearing loss within three to six months old, there are some treatments doctors can do, depending on the cause” said Dr. Morgenstein. “If it’s due to fluid behind the ear drum, we can put a tube in and drain the fluid and that takes care of the loss. Sometimes, we’ll use hearing aids. Now, if there is profound hearing loss and the hearing aids are not beneficial you could do what’s called a cochlear implant.” The cochlear implant can be surgically placed in both ears, if necessary, in children as young as six month old.

He says children born with infection, genetic syndrome, or even low birth rate are at a higher risk for hearing loss, making it important to catch the signs early.

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Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, FL is the largest network of medical care facilities in Southwest Florida and is highly respected for its expertise, innovation and quality of care. For nearly a century, we’ve been providing our community with everything from primary care treatment to highly specialized care services and robotic assisted surgeries.

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kCIS0_ASUKI, 5 Tips for Getting Started in Therapy for Children with Hearing Loss, https://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/5-tips-getting-started-therapy-children-hearing-loss/

Are you a speech-language pathologist working with children who have hearing loss? Are you struggling to know where to start in speech therapy and what to do? Erin Gaul from Your Speech Path, LLC joined us LIVE on The Speechie Show to share her tips for doing speech therapy with children with hearing loss.
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Welcome to the Speechie Show! Being a speech-language pathologist often means having too much work and not enough planning time. To beat the overwhelm, we’re bringing you the tricks and tools that will make your job a little bit easier.

Carrie: Hello everyone and welcome to the speeches show. I am your host Carrie Clark from Speech & Language kids.com and I am here today with Erin from Your Speech Path LLC. Thank you so much for joining us, Erin.

Erin: Sure, I am happy to be here.

Carrie: Excellent. today we are talking about where to start in therapy with your students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. And we are going to share some tips today about how to get started with that, some therapy ideas, and we’re going to do some giveaways here in just a couple minutes. So, stay tuned if you’re here with us on Facebook Live you’ll get a chance to participate in our giveaways. Alright, so we’re talking about deaf and hard-of-hearing students today. And Erin why don’t you go ahead and introduce yourself and your experience with students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Erin: Sure. So, my career started when I saw Mr. Holland’s Opus when I was a teenager and fell in love with sign language and the deaf community. I went a little bit of a different path in speech, initially. My background is a Bachelor’s in deaf study. I learned American Sign Language in college and then I went to Gallaudet University in DC for my Master’s in speech-language pathology. My passion has always been deaf and hard-of-hearing kiddos. So, it has been from the beginning and it is my bread and butter and I am really excited to talk about it today.

Carrie: Absolutely! Okay so are you in private practice now or working in the schools or what are you doing?

Erin: I am. I just opened my own private practice in January. I’ve worked in early intervention, preschools, outpatient rehab, private practice, and now I’ve just opened my own. So, private practice is definitely my forte. I really, really love it.

Carrie: Fantastic. Okay, so as we are going along today if you are watching with us live, we encourage you to type in questions. If you have any questions about the deaf or hard-of-hearing community or any of the things we’re talking about, go ahead and type those into the comment section. And go ahead and type in right now what age group you are working with so we can make sure that we’re getting you the information you want. So, if you’re watching with us live go ahead and type in the comments what age group you’re working with and we’re going to jump in here today with five tips…to finish reading, visit our blog post: https://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/5-tips-getting-started-therapy-children-hearing-loss/.,