This American publication combines speechreading, listening, and repair strategy training using speech materials that are meaningful to children and teenagers. Students receive both speechreading and auditory training so they can establish associations between corresponding auditory and audiovisual stimuli. Students also learn to use repair strategies when they do not understand a sentence. The training activities are simple to present and do not require advance preparation. Extensive testing of the student’s communication skills before or during training is not necessary to establish therapy objectives since training is adaptive. The instructor is provided with the means to alter the level of training difficulty according to the student’s ongoing performance, degree of hearing loss, and maturity.
Spiral-bound 273 pages 1993 |
