Wake Children's Hearing Intervention Program*

From: Center for Acquisition of Spoken Language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE), a department of the Carolina Children's Communicative Disorders Program (CCCDP) in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery at UNC - Chapel Hill

Purpose: Realize the potential for children with even the most profound hearing loss to use spoken language.

How: Train 20 professionals (15 from Wake County Public Schools and 5 from the Office of Education Services in the NC Department of Health and Human Services) with:

1. A series of seven academic workshops
2. A one week hands-on internship at CASTLE
3. Eight on-site visits from a consultant expert in auditory learning
4. Attendance (for 10) at two week summer institute at CASTLE

Outcome:

1. Pre-test/post-test of ability of trainee to apply academic information to intervention
2. Use of teaching behaviors ranked for mastery by CASTLE staff
3. Trainee evaluation with post-training videotape for identification of teaching behaviors with patients
4. Program evaluation by trainee to improve program effectiveness

Cost/Term: $103,171 over five years. June 2003-June 2008