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Literacy and Cochlear Implants: Recent Research and Implications for Practice

Literacy and Cochlear Implants: Recent Research and Implications for Practice
Heather Hayes, Ph.D., Ann Geers, Ph.D.
September 13, 2013
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 This text-based course is a transcript of the seminar, "Literacy and Cochlear Implants: Recent Research and Implications for Practice”, presented by Heather Hayes, Ph.D. and Ann Geers, Ph.D.Click here for supplemental handouts>> Heather Hayes:  We are going to discuss the development of literacy skills in students who have used a cochlear implant (CI) throughout their school years.  All of us who work with children who are deaf recognize the challenges that they face in developing competence in reading and written expression.  These skills are essential to competing successfully with hearing age-mates in the general education setting.  We are going to argue that auditory processing plays an important role in phonological development in children with cochlear implants, and that these phonological processing capabilities underlie the development of age appropriate reading skill. We have three learning outcomes.  After this course, participants will be able to describe the achievement level and rate of reading progress made by cochlear implant users between elementary grades and high school.  You should also be able to name at least three predictors of reading success for children and adolescents who wear cochlear implants.  Finally, you should be able to state at least two reasons why deaf children with cochlear implants require explicit instruction to improve phonemic awareness. ReadingWhat Reading Requires...


heather hayes

Heather Hayes, Ph.D.

Heather Hayes, Ph.D. is Director of Deaf Education Studies and Assistant Professor in the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Dr. Hayes earned her Master’s in Education of the Deaf at Smith College and taught at the Moog Center for Deaf Education prior to completing her Ph.D. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Hayes currently instructs and mentors future teachers in the Deaf Education graduate program at Washington University, as they acquire the skills to become specialists in listening and spoken language instruction for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Her research interests include language, reading, and spelling development in deaf children who wear cochlear implants. 


ann geers

Ann Geers, Ph.D.

Ann Geers, Ph.D. is Research Professor at the Callier Center for Advanced Hearing Research in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and at the University of Texas at Dallas and in the Dallas Cochlear Implant Program at the Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.   She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.  For more than 20 years she was Director of Clinical Services and Head of the Center for Applied Research in Childhood Deafness at Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis Missouri.  In addition to publishing more than 100 articles and book chapters on the speech, language, cognitive and academic development of deaf children, Dr. Geers has developed and published tests of speech perception, speech production, language and intelligence.  She has been a Principal Investigator or co-investigator on six research grants from the US National Institutes of Deafness and other Communication Disorders.  Her current work focuses on auditory, speech, language and academic/social development in children who receive cochlear implants in infancy and preschool.  



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