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The following list of therapy resources for children includes FREE programs, websites for listening practice, workbooks, CDs and interactive computer programs for purchase. Maximize your child’s hearing and educational success with cochlear implants by discussing therapy options with your cochlear implant team and school.

The Listening Room

Visit the Advanced Bionics Listening Room, a FREE web resource with rehabilitation activities and ideas to support the development of listening skills in and language skills in children.
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Websites for Listening Practice
A number of websites available on the Internet can serve as great practice for listening with cochlear implants. Advanced Bionics compiles a list of websites, meant as a resource for information. These sites are geared toward older children, teens and adults. Advanced Bionics does not necessarily support or endorse these sites.
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Bringing Sound to Life: Principles and Practices of Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation
Developed by Mary E. Koch, MA, CED

A Project of The Listening Center at Johns Hopkins University and City Bridge Foundation

This video training program for professionals and/or parents offers a systematic approach to learning how to listen and understand the connection between a sound and its meaning.

Bringing Sound to Life Manual and 4 DVDs (each DVD is captioned in English, Spanish and French) When you order the entire Bringing sound to Life package you’ll get four professionally produced and edited DVDs—nearly two hours of broadcast quality programming and a rehabilitation manual. Alternatively, you can order each piece individually to meet your needs.

Building Blocks of Spoken Language
Understanding Hearing and Hearing Loss
Cochlear Implants and Children: An Opportunity, Not a Cure
Principles and Practices of Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation

Bringing Sound to Life Series:
Manual (090337-A) $49.99 USD
DVD (090336-A) $149.99 USD
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Word Associations for Syllable Perception
Developed by Mary E. Koch, MA, CED

In Word Associations for Syllable Perception (WASP), you find 225 brightly colored, kid-friendly, and easy–to-use picture cards representing the 40 English phonemes in words to which young children can relate. Start with single phonemes and simple syllable sounds like mmm, baa, and sss. Then systematically introduce words with increasingly complex combinations from consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words of level 2 to CVC words in Level 4. Parents and teachers can use the manual and cards at home and in school.

WASP Manual and 225 Cards (090340-A) $129.99 USD
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Tune Ups

Developed by Christine Barton and Amy Robbins

A music CD and a habilitation program that seamlessly weaves music and language together to engage children who are hearing impaired for an incredible listening, language and overall learning experience.

This CD contains a collection of 18 songs that you can use to encourage speech and language development in children with hearing impairment of all ages. Accompanying this CD are the music/lyric sheets, instructions on how to use each song to promote language development, and detailed information on how to use the Tune Ups approach in your therapy sessions.

Tune Ups CD with Insert (2-091394) $19.99 USD

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