15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/15/2016 | 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM | Topical Session 4 | Pacific Salon 6/7 | 3 - Language Acquisition and Development
Music & Young Children with Cochlear Implants (and Hearing Loss)
Developed by Julie Kosaner, Music and Young Children with Cochlear Implants was designed especially for parents of young children with cochlear implants (and hearing loss). It highlights the benefits of musical training, the components of music activities, listening to and playing musical instruments, and singing. These different areas will be discussed and examples will be given of how to strengthen musicality in hearing impaired children. This resource also contains a Musicality Rating Scale for 25 different music skills in children.
- List 5 areas of development that music training benefits
- Describe several activities that facilitate music development or strengthen musicality
- Describe how to use the Musicality Rating Scale
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Presenters/Authors
Christine Pett
(Primary Presenter), MED-EL, christine.pett@medel.com;
Christine Pett, M.S. Speech & Hearing, is a certified Deaf Educator who has previously taught listening and spoken language to deaf and hard of hearing children (Age 2-12) at Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, MO, Desert Voices in Phoenix, AZ, and in the public schools. Christine became a Consumer Outreach Manager for MED-EL in 2010. She travels extensively to support educators, speech-language pathologists, educational audiologists, parents of deaf children and consumers. Christine educates others on MED-EL’s cochlear implant technology as well as MED-EL’s many educational and aural rehab support services. She is the mother of a (grown) son who has been wearing a cochlear implant for 15 years.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Receives Salary for Employment from MED EL Corp.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.