The role of the speech-language pathologist with hearing-impaired infants.
The educators of the deaf, the audiologists, and other similar professional groups appear to have reasonably clearly delineated roles to play in the management of the hearing-impaired child. Not so with the speech-language pathologist. This paper specifies such a role and offers a model for the delivery of speech-language pathology services to the hearing-impaired infant.
D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D003638:Deafness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D007808:Language Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods*