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General Information for the Family

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Supporting Families - Counseling Parents about Cochlear Implants - Implications for Audiologists - Audiologists - My Baby's Hearing. With the advent of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and changing criteria for implant recipients, parents may be faced with the decision for cochlear implantation shortly after receiving the initial diagnosis of hearing loss.

Supporting Families - Counseling Parents about Cochlear Implants - Implications for Audiologists - Audiologists - My Baby's Hearing

This creates the need for extra care and counseling at a time when families are trying to grasp a diagnosis that has sent them into unchartered territory. Professionals may help parents through the decision-making process in the following ways: (See Dr. David Luterman's article: Counseling Parents About Cochlear Implants, the ASHA Leader, May 27, 2003). Parents Home Page. Raising Deaf Kids.