The Confident Kids series empowers children with hearing loss to navigate different social environments by teaching them practical strategies for building healthy relationships. Aimed at children between 4-5 years of age, it comes equipped with a parent education component to help caregivers support their children in everyday life.
The Talk Together series of courses is for families of children newly diagnosed with hearing loss. In the introductory Listening Foundations program, caregivers are empowered to make informed decisions about their child’s listening and speaking journey through knowledge-sharing and connecting with other parents.
Executive function is used to help us plan, learn, attend, self-regulate and manage in everyday situations. This course will explore current research and implications for intervention in regards to executive function for children with hearing loss.
Listening experience is the foundation for clear speech development in children and it begins to in utero. Up to 25% of children aged 5-7 may have speech sound disorders and this is likely to be higher in children with hearing loss. Understanding the impact of auditory access to speech development is crucial to intervention and treatment.