Cochlear Implant- Rehab Flashcards
What is the role of rehab?
- Monitoring
- Assessment
- Advice
In rehab, they see the child for _____ years post implant.
5
What does rehab focus on?
Early years of implant use.
Rehab assistants don’t hold ________ and don’t provide ____________.
Duty of Care.
Weekly Therapy
The more you wear the cochlear implant the…
better the outcome.
Who is the child normally seen by weekly?
Teacher of the Death or SLT in local area.
What areas are assessed and how?
Expressive and Receptive Language - CELF
Listening/Speech Perception- GRASPS and questionnaires.
Speech Production -PETAL, speech intelligibility rating.
What is essential for rehab?
Parent Interaction.
The child must be ______ in _________. This must be presented at the right ______ for the child.
Immersed, Spoken language.
level.
The rehab assistant often teaches parents specific ______.
techniques.
Explain to the parent…
Expectations and why they are doing an activity.
Name some strategies and techniques.
Pausing and Waiting (gives child time to process auditory info) Modelling (encourage parents to model correct language models) Acoustic Highlighting (use intonation to emphasise features of speech so child pays attention). Auditory Closure (leave a gap for child to close e.g. ready, steady...) One person speak at a time (avoids auditory clutter) Hand cues (cue to listen/ take turns) Language expansion (expand utterances).
What is used to develop spoken language?
LISTENING :)
Why are nursery rhymes so important for rehab?
- phonological awareness
- Supra-segmentals
- rhythm
- auditory memory
- vocabulary
- humour and imagination
- coordination
- confidence
Acoustic Highlighting makes a sound, word or phrase accoustically ______.
Salient.