Video-Based Aural Rehabilitation Guide

Linda Daniel, MS, MA, is a Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist and licensed audiologist. As director of HEAR In Dallas, she provides listening and spoken language services to individuals with hearing loss of all ages, many of whom have complex needs. Linda specializes in the communication needs of children who have early- and late-identified hearing loss and adults with pre- and post-linguistic hearing loss. The children and adults in her practice have hearing aids, cochlear implants, and auditory brainstem implants. In her affiliation with the Dallas Hearing Foundation, she provides family-based services to children and adults who travel to Dallas from across the globe for hearing-related surgeries, hearing technologies, audiological, and aural rehabilitative services. For 45 years, Linda has presented at professional conferences in the United States and abroad. ++++++++++++++++++Sneha V. Bharadwaj, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Texas Woman’s University, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Dallas - Callier Center for Communication Disorders, where she also served as a Research Scientist for 4 years. She has been a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist for 20 years. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communication sciences and disorders offered on campus as well as in the distance venues. Her research focuses on speech production, cognitive, and literacy outcomes in children with hearing loss.

Preface. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Chapter 1. Overview of Aural Rehabilitation, Sneha V. Bharadwaj, Linda L. Daniel, and Susan G. Allen. Chapter 2. Hearing Aids and Hearing Assistive Technology Systems, Amyn M. Amlani and Sneha V. Bharadwaj. Chapter 3. Cochlear Implants for Children and Adults with Hearing Loss, Sneha V. Bharadwaj, Linda L. Daniel, B. Robert Peters, and Kristin King. Chapter 4. Auditory Brainstem Implants for Children and Adults with Hearing Loss, Sneha V. Bharadwaj, Linda L. Daniel, and B. Robert Peters. Chapter 5. Intervention After Early Diagnosis of Hearing Loss: A Listening and Spoken Language Approach, Linda L. Daniel and Christina Perigoe. Chapter 6. Factors Affecting Intervention and Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss, Linda L. Daniel, Ellen A. Rhoades, and Sneha V. Bharadwaj. Chapter 7. Educational Supports for Students with Hearing Loss: Primary through Post-Secondary Settings, Sarah D. Wainscott and Sneha V. Bharadwaj. Chapter 8. Aural Rehabilitation for Adults with Hearing Loss, Linda L. Daniel, Kristin King, Linda Thibodeau, and Carol Cokely. Chapter 9. Fundamentals of Assessing Communication Skills in Children and Adults with Hearing Loss, Sneha V. Bharadwaj and Jill Duncan. Chapter 10. Quality of Life, Counseling, and Advocacy for Children and Adults with Hearing Loss, Linda L. Daniel, Andrea D. Warner-Czyz, and Roshini Kumar. Appendix: Case Histories of Persons with Hearing Loss Featured in the Videos. Index