Materials available through our website: www.cochlear.com Re/Habilitation Resources 2015 For all ages and stages Cochlear’s rehabilitation resources are designed to support each recipient as they progress through their listening journey.

Cochlear Mission We help people hear and be heard. We empower people to connect with others and live a full life. We transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss. We innovate and bring to market a range of implantable hearing solutions that deliver a lifetime of hearing outcomes 2 Cochlear Re/Habilitation Resources 2015

Cochlear Re/Habilitation Resources Coaching and guiding with insight Page 4 Birth to 6 years: Page 8 -Water play with Aqua + -Tracking progress Teens and Adults Page 22 Professional Resources Page 26 Materials available through our website: Cochlear Re/Habilitation Resources 2015 3

Welcome to the wonderful world of Data logging Coaching and Guiding with Insight – Families Data logging gives us the opportunity for positive conversations with families about the listening and spoken language world of each child. What conversations would you want to have with a parent or carer? Is the device being used? Off Air 9.8 hrs Trends Over Time hrs 12 s On Air 4 Time on Air Daily Average Thinking about time on air/speech/noise etc. Could you ask… What is happening in your child’s daily routine which may affect the data logs? What is happening in the family routine at home? What is the...

Trends Over Time Daily Average 40 0 Speech 2.4 hrs Speech in Noise 0.6 hrs We can help families to understand their role in creating a good listening and language learning environment. Could you ask… What things are you doing that help your child to listen? What could you do more of? What else could you do? What difference might this make? Have a conversation with a family about their child’s data logs and build on the good things they are doing. Cochlear Re/Habilitation Resources 2014 5

Coaching and Guiding with Insight – Teenagers and Adults Data logging can promote positive conversations with teenagers and adults. You can use the information that data logging provides to start a conversation that will help someone to understand how he or she is using their cochlear implant(s). What questions might help someone to think about the opportunities they have to develop their listening skills and to participate in conversations? Off Air 9.8 hrs Trends Over Time hrs 12 s On Air Daily Average What programs are being used? Identify programs most used and fine-tune settings. Trends Over...

Materials available through our website: www.cochlear.com DiaLog The data logging counselling tool Cochlear Re/Habilitation Resources 2015 7

Birth to Six Years On the road to listening Sound Foundation series: A series of three planned resources designed to help parents guide their child to age appropriate spoken language through listening. Each program consists of 40 lessons centered on a unit or theme in the areas of audition, receptive language, (understanding), expressive language, (what child says), speech, (how child says). Each folder covers 12 months of hierarchical goals following cochlear implantation at around 12 months of age. Each lesson includes a Story and Song page. Sound Foundation for Babies 12-24months Language:...

Materials available through our website: www.cochlear.com Listen, Learn and Talk Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish Swedish, Norwegian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese Focusing on the natural bond that exists between parents and their children, this auditory habilitation tool consists of a book and DVD. This program has been developed for both parents and professionals to compliment their child’s habilitation program. The program follows the natural development of the child from birth to school age, and contains ideas and strategies for developing spoken...

Birth to Six Years On the way to talking Small Talk Language: English, Dutch, Slovenian This package includes a DVD, booklet and handy fridge notes. Small Talk gives families of young infants, ideas on promoting early communication and interaction in those first few months after a diagnosis of deafness. Chit Chat Language: English This resource includes a video, booklet and photocopiable sheets and demonstrates the art of parent-child conversation in everyday family life. The package is designed to support the timely development of parent-child spoken language communication in daily life using...

Materials available through our website: www.cochlear.com Speech Sounds Consonants Language: English, Simplified Chinese There are lots of ideas on how to give your child maximum exposure to many common consonant sounds in this easy to follow guide. Each sound has stories, songs, games, rhymes and recipes that focus on that particular sound. Ideal if you want to work on a ‘sound of the week’ at home. Speech Sounds Vowels Language: English, Spanish Speech Sounds Vowels is designed to give children rich auditory input and exposure to each (American) vowel by suggesting child friendly words, games...

Birth to Six Years On the road to reading My Experience Book Language: English, Japanese Experience books are personalized stories that can be highly rewarding and exciting because the child is the main character in the story. Creating experience books is an interactive communication process between a child and significant adult which lays the foundation for the natural development of listening, speech, language and literacy. This program demonstrates how to create Experience Books to support your child’s literacy development. Learning with Literacy Language: English. The relationship between...

Materials available through our website: www.cochlear.com HOPE words app Can be used in any language using pictures only Created as a tool for improving listening and spoken language skills of children with hearing loss. HOPE words features interactive flashcards for the full alphabet that have been organized by the speech sounds in the English language. Each letter of the alphabet has 20 different flashcards This allows auditory self-monitoring by listening to a word and matching speech production. Vocabulary development is also facilitated by matching the sound to a picture. Hear our stories...