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Staff from the Hearing & Speech Institute have published several publications relating to early intervention and curricula for childhood education. They are available for purchase as listed below:

Speech and Language Development Price
Storybook-Based Curriculum
This curriculum promotes emergent literacy skills and language development in children ages 2-6. The curriculum provides learning activities centered around 12 different children's books.

by Kate E Fetherston M.A., CCC-SLP and Kate Brady England M.A., CCC-SLP
$29.00
Infant Hearing Resource Early Intervention Materials Price
4th Edition: Parent-Infant Communication
(1998. Valerie Schuyler and Jayne Sowers) Parent-Infant Communication is a family-centered curriculum of listening and communication skills development for children, birth to four years of age, with hearing impairment or language delays. Child learning objectives follow the sequences of auditory and language skills acquisition as they occur in typically developing children. Parent information and skills objectives guide parents in promoting their child's listening and language development.
$55.00
For Families - Guidebook and Videotapes
(1998. Valerie Schuyler and Jayne Sowers) The For Families Guidebook and two 60-minute closed-captioned videotapes combine to provide family members and caregivers with easy-to-understand descriptions and real-life video illustrations on topics related to their young child with hearing loss.

The Guidebook and two videotapes help family members understand:
  • Hearing and hearing loss
  • Tests and procedures used to evaluate hearing in young children
  • Amplification systems: Hearing aids, cochlear implants and FM systems
  • Beginning hearing aid use and hearing aid maintenance
  • How family members and caregivers can promote the child's acquisition of listening skills
  • How young children learn: The relationship between development in motor, cognitive, social-emotional and communication domains
  • Prelinguistic Communication: How and why infants communicate before they use words
  • Helping your child understand and use symbolic language
  • The importance of play and preliteracy
  • Emotions family members may experience related to their child with hearing loss
  • Resources for additional information and support
VIDEOTAPE I: Understanding Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids and Helping Your Child to Learn to Listen.

VIDEOTAPE II: Helping Your Child to Learn to Communicate.
For Families - Guidebook/Two Videotape Set: $90.00

For Families - Guidebook Only: $20.00

For Families - Two Video Set: $80.00

For Families - Video I: $45.00

For Families - Video II: $45.00
Resources for the Early Intervention Professional Price
Parent-Infant Habilitation
(1987. Valerie Schuyler and Nancy Rushmer)
A text covering essential elements of family-based early intervention services for deaf and hard of hearing infants and toddlers.
  • Part I: Components of an effective parent-infant habilitation program.
  • Part II: Identification and auditory assessment of infants.
  • Part III: Involving family members in early intervention: Establishing partnerships between parent and early intervention specialist; acquiring skills for attending to the feelings and needs of family members.
  • Part IV: Helping parents to acquire information and skills related to their child's hearing loss.
  • Part V: Helping parents promote their child's acquisition of listening and language skills.
  • Part VI: Working with families whose deaf/hard of hearing infants and toddlers have additional disabilities.
$40.00

 

As of January 1, 2002, the Hearing & Speech Institute stopped selling publications directly.

Publications listed here can be purchased directly from Butte Publications at the following address:

Butte Publications
PO Box 1328
Hillsboro, OR 97123-1328

Phone: 503-648-9761
Toll Free: 866-312-8883
Toll Free Fax: 866-312-8883

Or, you may purchase online by clicking here Butte Publications

Shipping charges are $3.50 or 10% of the order cost, whichever is higher.

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