This topic area spans across professions encompassing issues applicable to audiologists, speech language pathologists, and research scientists who work with children with hearing loss, their families, and professionals who serve them. Proposals appropriate for submission to this topic area include assessment and management of children who are deaf and hard of hearing, ages birth to 21. Submissions should address communication assessments for auditory development, language—including spoken, signed, and written language, and speech. Additionally, proposals related to intervention services including technology (e.g., hearing assistive technology, educational audiologic management, speech and language therapy, literacy) align with this topic area. Interprofessional education, practice, and/or research that addresses collaborative care and outcomes specific to listening, language and speech in children who are deaf and hard of hearing should be included in this topic area.
Proposals involving this population but with a primary focus on: