Guide For Children To Speak A Second Language

The first-ever book for families, audiologists and teachers working to teach second, spoken languages to children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, is now available. Its author, Michael Douglas, a certified auditory-verbal therapist (AVT), was based at the University of  Houston from 2010 to 2012.

>> Dual Language-Learning for Children With Hearing Loss

Some people are challenged by the concept of deaf children with two spoken languages – however, today’s digital hearing-devices give more children unprecedented access to spoken sounds and to spoken languages. In China, tonal Chinese dialects are similarly spoken by children with hearing-devices.