This section provides you with the current information on cochlear implant candidacy and a basic overview of cochlear implants.

• Introduction to Cochlear Implants
  This 30-minute introductory presentation includes a video demonstration of how a cochlear implant works and resources to support learning and getting a cochlear implant. This session is valuable to anyone considering a cochlear implant for themselves or a family member. A transcript of the presentation is included and audio is available via the speakers on your computer or headset.
• Cochlear Implants: Considerations for the Older Adult
  Presenter: Carissa Moeggenberg, MA, CCC-A with special guest Evelyn Gardner, cochlear implant recipient
  
  Is a cochlear implant the right choice for you? Learn about what a cochlear implant is, how it works, and who is a candidate through this live one-hour web class.
• Counseling Families: Identification and Management of Severe to Profound Hearing Loss in Children
  

Learn why listening with two ears provides the natural hearing choice for children and adults through one of the online courses listed below.

• Hear More Now and in the Future with Bilateral Harmony Cochlear Implants
  Learn how receiving bilateral cochlear implants today will provide your child with many opportunities in the future.
• Bilateral Cochlear Implants: The Natural Choice for Adults
  Find out if you may be a candidate for bilateral cochlear implants. Hear first-hand accounts from those who know best, cochlear implant recipients and their families.
• Bilateral Cochlear Implants: The Natural Choice for Children
  It is no surprise that two ears hear better than one. Just as we are born to hear with two ears, using cochlear implants in both ears (bilateral cochlear implants) gives you or your child the best opportunity to hear more naturally. Whether you are considering implants for the first time or have used one implant for years, today’s cochlear implant candidates and recipients experience many benefits of hearing with two ears.
• Hear Confidently: Bilateral Hearing and AutoSound
  A recorded live chat with AB cochlear implant recipients and their families.
• The Real World: Bilateral Hearing and HiRes
  An online chat with recipient and families of those who use bilateral cochlear implants.
• Bilateral Hearing with the Harmony and T-Mic
  A recorded webinar discussing the benefits of bilateral hearing with AB’s Harmony and T-Mic microphone.
• Bilateral Hearing - Navigating the Insurance Maze
  

Learn the latest information about our products, including the features and benefits of our system, how to connect to assistive listening devices, and how to troubleshoot your equipment.

• Understanding Cochlear Implant Programmings
  This course was designed for families and the professional supporting a child with a cochlear implant, but may not work directly with a cochlear implant team. In this one-hour session, an overview of cochlear implant programming is provided. In addition, the goals, methods, and expectations are highlighted.
• Sound Choices for the Child with Profound Hearing Loss
  A child diagnosed with severe-to-profound hearing loss may experience more than one type of auditory technology over the first years of their life. This presentation reviews current advanced technology options for a young child and when these options may be appropriate to meet a young child’s developmental needs. This is an intermediate level course for parents and professionals (educators, SLP, audiologists). This session is captioned.
• Connecting Cochlear Implants to Today’s Technology
  Learn how connecting to today’s technology is easily and naturally done with AB’s cochlear implant system. Various video demonstrations as well as tips for selecting a cell phone and listening to music fill this hour-long presentation.
• Troubleshooting Cochlear Implants
  This course provides basic information on how to troubleshoot available AB sound processors.
  

This series contains courses designed to familiarize you with the principles and practices of cochlear implant rehabilitation in young children. Specifically, the presenter provides you with a systematic approach to learning how to listen and understanding that connection between sound and its meaning.

• Making Therapy Fun - Motivation, Expectation and Structure
  How do you make therapy FUN but at the same time provide structure? Take this course and find out! Web class, 60 minutes.
• Tool Time: Listening Activities for Infants and Toddlers
  Learn about the components to listening and how to integrate them into your therapy session with young children. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Tool Time: Listening Activities for School-Age Children
  Learn about the components to listening and how to integrate them into your therapy session with school age children. Web class, 60 minutes.
  

Mary Koch has been working with children with cochlear implants since 1983. In 1994, she began the cochlear implant rehabilitation program at the Listening Center at Johns Hopkins. Mary currently provides cochlear implant rehab training nationally and internationally and serves as a consultant to Advanced Bionics.

This series is designed to provide participants with strategies for targeting language development through parent and child interactions throughout their daily routines.

• Sound Foundations to Early Speech Skills
  Understanding what those principles are to develop early speech skills will be discussed during this 60 minute web class.
• Language, Vocabulary, Sentences, Stories and Beyond
  How do you increase your child's listening and comprehension skills? Find out by participating in this 60 minute web class.
  

About the presenter: Dave Sindrey is the creator of many beloved materials for children with hearing loss, including Listening Games for Littles and the Cochlear Implant Auditory Training Guide. Dave is known for inventive and effective games that work on both listening and language, and his lighthearted illustrations are loved by both parents and children around the world. He established his own publishing company in 1990, Wordplay Publications, which he continues to operate from his home town. Dave was trained as a Speech Language Pathologist at the University of Western Ontario and during his undergraduate degree in Communicative Disorders, studied under Dr. Daniel Ling. Dave is certified as an Auditory-Verbal Therapist and has given more than one hundred lectures internationally on parent centered treatment, creating fun and effective lesson plans, strategies for developing listening skills and techniques for promoting active listening behaviors in children. He lives in London Ontario Canada with his son Liam and their dog Tugs.

This series provides information on how to create a unique rehabilitation plan for you or your child.

• Exploring Communication Options-Guiding Families and Professionals
  This course explores communication options available to families with children who are affected by hearing loss. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Exploring Auditory-Verbal Therapy-History and Theory
  This course offers parents and professionals with information on the use of Auditory-Verbal Therapy techniques with children who have cochlear implants. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Auditory Verbal Therapy- The Parent Component
  This course focuses on the parents and the important role they play in the habilitation process of their child. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Basic Audiology for the Educator and Therapist
  This course provides basic information about how hearing is measured, including what tests are administered and the audiogram and how the therapist can be involved in this process. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Exploring Normal Developmental Milestones for Treatment Planning
  It is important to understand the normal developmental milestones for children so that they may be applied to a therapy plan for children with hearing loss. This information is reviewed in this course. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Applying Normal Developmental Milestones to Therapy Planning: The Infant and Preschool Stages
  Now that you understand normal development how do you apply that information to a young child with a hearing loss? Find out in this 60 minute web class.
• Applying Normal Developmental Milestones to Therapy Planning: The School-Age Child
  Now that you understand normal development, how do you apply that information to an older child with a hearing loss? Find out in this 60 minute web class.
• Applying AVT Principles to the Child with Additional Disabilities
  This course offers information on using an AVT approach with children with additional disabilities. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Creating Partnerships between the Family, School, and CI Center
  One way to maximize a child's success with a cochlear implant is through communication and collaboration with all of the members of the child's team. This course describes techniques to create a communicative and supportive environment. Web class, 60 minutes.
• Making the Connection: Encouraging Self-Directed Listening Practice with Adolescents and Adults
  As a teen or adult listening practice is an important part of learning to connect to your cochlear implant. This course offers techniques and strategies to practice your listening skills. Web class, 60 minutes.
  

About the presenter: Krista is a speech-language pathologist and Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist who has been teaching spoken language to children who are deaf since 1999. She has worked in both the private practice setting and in the academic setting. Krista worked with the University of Michigan Cochlear Implant Program from 2001-2006 before working with Advanced Bionics as a consultant. Krista's research interest is spoken language outcomes with the Auditory-Verbal approach and she has presented at several national cochlear implant meetings on this topic. She now lives in North Carolina with her husband and 2 children.

Working with very young children with cochlear implants can be tricky! Learn from one of the industry leaders in this area by viewing the following lesson. This lesson provides you with insightful techniques and strategies to improve your therapy sessions.

• Getting Ready to Work with Infants and Toddlers with Cochlear Implants
  This course offers the participant with ideas and strategies to set the stage to work with very young children.

About the presenter: Amy McConkey Robbins, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she provides diagnostic and therapy services to children, often teaming with Chris Barton during intervention. She also advises school districts on the management of children with hearing loss and consults with Advanced Bionics. She has published in numerous books and journals and is the author or co-author of some widely-used assessment tools, such as the MAIS, IT-MAIS, and Mr. Potato Head Task.

• Developing Listening Skills in the Home
  For a child using a cochlear implant, the home environment is key to optimizing listening and language development. Advanced Bionics is pleased to present this course in partnership with AG Bell. Krista Heavner, discusses creating a home environment which encourages the development of listening skills and spoken communication. 60 minutes.

About the presenter: Krista is a speech-language pathologist and Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist who has been teaching spoken language to children who are deaf since 1999. She has worked in both the private practice setting and in the academic setting. Krista worked with the University of Michigan Cochlear Implant Program from 2001-2006 before working with Advanced Bionics as a consultant. Krista's research interest is in spoken language outcomes with the Auditory-Verbal approach and she has presented at several national cochlear implant meetings on this topic. She now lives in North Carolina with her husband and 2 children.

Hearing with two ears is a natural occurrence which is why many parents are choosing to implant their child with two cochlear implants versus one. Whether a child receives two cochlear implants at the same time (simultaneously) or one at a time (sequentially), rehabilitation is a crucial component to maximize a child’s success. This webinar series is designed to provide parents and professionals with practical approaches to early intervention and rehabilitation of children with hearing loss with a special emphasis on bilateral cochlear implants.

• Sequential and Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Therapy Guidelines and Outcomes
• The Parent Role in Early Intervention

About the presenter: Dr. Goldberg is currently the Co-Director of the Hearing Implant Program (HIP) in the Section of Audiology at the Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Institute. Goldberg earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1985. He has held university/college teaching positions (University of Montana, University of Connecticut, and The College of Wooster – Ohio), prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic in 2005. Dr. Goldberg was the former Executive Director of the Helen Beebe Speech and Hearing Center prior to moving to Ohio.

Goldberg has published on the topics of Auditory-Verbal Therapy, the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language, cochlear implants, communication assessment, educational audiology, and the clinical efficacy of AVT. Currently the President of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language, he is also on the AG Bell Board of Directors.