2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/15/2014 | 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Little Ears Auditory Questionnaire | Clearwater | 2
Little Ears Auditory Questionnaire
Early intervention, along with technology advances, have given children an extraordinary opportunity to advance auditory brain development. The LEAQ helps to provide therapist with early auditory development information based on lack or access of auditory stimulation. This assessment can help to identify delays as well as be used to monitor auditory development pre and post CI implantation/activation or Hearing Aid stimulation.
Primary auditory skill development takes place within the first few years after access to sound happens. In monitoring auditory developnment progresstion, professionals need to be aware of the auditory hierarchy of skills and timelines of expectation for acquisition of skills. This presentation will review a hierarchy of auditory skills that progress from awareness, discrimination, identification, to comprehension.
Little Ears Auditory Questionnaire
I. Answers the question: How Does Auditory Behavior Develop in hearing impaired children after receiving a CI or other hearing technology.
II. Designed for children under the age of 3 – designed to assess age appropriate auditory behavior of children in the preverbal stage of development.
a. Clearly structured, easy to use, easy to analyze
III. What Can I Use it for?
a. Documenting the developmental auditory progress of cochlear implant or hearing aid recipients in rehabilitation programs
b. As an auditory screening tool for general practitioners, pediatricians and ENT specialists
c. As a measurement tool for scientific studies
IV. How is Auditory Development Reflected in the LEAQ?
a. Designed to reflect those most important milestones of preverbal auditory behavior.
b. Items were selected based on empirical and theoretical knowledge of preverbal auditory, speech and language development
c. Emphasizes responses to sounds
V. Categories within the LEAQ
a. Receptive, Semantic and Auditory Behavior
b. Expressive Vocal Behavior
c. Used to document age-dependent auditory development in hearing children as well as HA or CI
VI.
a. Can be used initially to assess the status of auditory development in a selective manner, and again over time to measure progress.
b. Can be used to determine hearing age
c. Can be used to set goals
- Parents will be able to identify their childs hearing age after presentation.
- Clinicians will cover age related listening behaviors up to hearing age of 3 years
- Clinicians will demonstrate knowledge of preverbal auditory, speech and language development
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Presenters/Authors
Stacy Rogers
(Primary Presenter), MED-EL, Stacy.Rogers@medel.com;
Stacy Rogers is a Clinical Account Manager for Med-El Corporation in the West Region. Her background with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants gives her a unique view of listening deveolpment at all ages. She has been a representative with MED-EL for 3 years and is currently working on her AuD.
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Christine Pett
(Co-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.
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