The staff also guides families in choosing the appropriate educational placement as their child enters the mainstream experience. Any additional mainstream support services are provided on an as needed basis depending upon the unique individual needs of the child. All families are encouraged to involve their child in mainstream activities. With the heavy emphasis our center places on mainstreaming, we feel every child should be involved in some setting with hearing peers. The center works with parents to brainstorm ways to mainstream their child appropriate to age level and needs.
Staff also completes a daily listening check with children to assess listening abilities.
This device is implanted into the auditory nerve to enable the individual to hear in an entirely different way, hearing sounds and spoken language previously unavailable to him or her. The center provides full services for children with implants until they are 8 years of age. Therapists work heavily on auditory stimulation, language enrichment, cognitive skill building, and speech and oral motor training. Therapists have discussed and helped students learn everything from how to produce a sound to listening and identifying animal sounds, and even explaining what condensation is and why this condition occurs. Assessments occur one time each year to determine baseline information and to chart progress in language development from year to year.