The LittlEars Auditory Development Assessment, is a parent checklist specifically developed for children under three years of age. It is designed
to assess age-appropriate auditory behavior of
children in the preverbal development phase.

Each LittlEars Kit includes all that is needed to
administer in the clinical or educational setting.
The kit includes a comprehensive manual and 25 questionnaires packaged in a convenient case.

This clinical tool for professionals is designed to assess spontaneous use of first level phonological patterns in children with hearing loss, utilizing a list of 25 words that are typically within the speaking vocabulary of young children with hearing loss. The word list provides at least five opportunities for the child to demonstrate how well he/she spontaneously targets each basic consonant feature, such as manner, place, and voicing, as well as each of the primary vowel areas, diphthongs, and basic word patterns. Numerical scoring of the test reveals whether the child’s patterns are missing, emerging, or mastered. Results are extremely useful in developing both auditory and speech goals for the child.

The test kit includes an
instructional manual,
10 score sheets, and 25 picture cards.

As a family raising a child with hearing loss, you will navigate your way through a variety of challenging decisions. You may find the two most daunting to be: which mode of communication is best for my child and our family; and what is the best educational placement for my child. The varied and often opposing viewpoints held by professionals, friends and family members can create anxiety as you strive to make the right choices for you and your child.

This booklet is designed to present descriptions of the more common options you will encounter. It was our goal to present the information in a clear and non-biased format. We hope that you will find it to be a valuable resource.

This brochure is available for download.
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The MED-EL Handbook for Educators and Handling and Troubleshooting the TEMPO+ Speech Processor are designed to enhance your current teaching practices as you work with the student who is learning to listen with a cochlear implant. It will provide an introduction to the system, and information to help you understand the workings of the implant, the implant process, what to expect, and how you can participate as fully as possible in the habilitation of the child.

Although we refer throughout the guide to “educators,” this resource is intended for all professionals who provide services to children with cochlear implants.

These brochures are available for download.
(Requires Adobe Reader software)

:: MED-EL Handbook for Educators

:: Handling and Troubleshooting the TEMPO+ Speech Processor

These materials are available for download without animations or demonstration video. For a fully functional version in CD-ROM format, please contact MED-EL.

AUDITRAIN is a training program designed to help adult CI users improve their communication skills. It consists of twenty-two individual lesson plans, each of which contains both synthetic and analytic exercises. The synthetic materials – question and answer exercises, list of common sentences around a central theme, word matrices and many other exercises – are designed to help clients optimize the use of their CI systems in everyday situations.

Auditrain includes a Therapist and a User book, a Speaker cloth mask, postcards and playing cards and in English.

SPEECHTRAX is a resource for clinicians to use with individuals for whom conventional speech tracking may not be appropriate. Based on Geoff Plant’s “Commtrac”, “SpeechTrax” features a modified version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Tinderbox”. This engaging story is divided into 53 sections, each of which consists of brief phrases (averaging 8 words each) for a total of 200 words per section. “SpeechTrax” has been shown to be an effective and enjoyable approach to helping CI users develop and improve their communication skills.

Speechtrax includes a Therapist and a User book and is available in English, Dutch, French, Polish, Romanian and Spanish.

HEAR AT HOME is aimed at meeting the needs of people with cochlear implants who require training and support without easy or ready access to trained personnel. “Hear at Home” is designed for home use, using family members and/or friends as the talkers. The exercises provide the talker with detailed instructions as to how the materials should be presented. “Hear at Home” is divided into 10 separate sessions. In each session, a series of speech sounds are introduced in words and sentences. Other exercises are provided, which provide additional practice in the recognition of connected speech.

Hear at Home includes a Therapist and a User book and is available in English, French, Romanian and Turkish.

SYNTRAIN was created to meet the needs of a special group of adult clients – those who have poor reading skills. “Syntrain” is also useful for therapy with older children and teenagers. “Syntrain” has a series of pictorial exercises, which require little or no reading. Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included.

ANALYTIKA is a collection of analytic test and training lists for use in testing and training adults and older children. Almost 600 lists are presented in a Word© format on a CD to allow for easy editing and printing. This means therapists can adjust the words to suit regional dialects etc. An instruction manual is provided in PDF format.

Analytika comes as a CD and is available in English.

AN AR SAMPLER contains a number of test and training resources applicable to day-to-day clinical work in speech pathology and audiology. The material is useful for both older children and adults with severe to profound hearing losses. “An AR Sampler” contains 8 different testing and training resources: consonant lists, Contentest, high frequency word lists, most frequent CVC lists, most frequent sentences lists, poems for younger children, poems for older children and a modified Speech Tracking story.

An AR Sampler comes as a CD with instructions and is available in English.