e-Pedagogium 2014, 14(4):64-72 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2014.042

Early Intervention in Context of Special Education - Communication between Parents of Hearing Impaired Children and Professionals with an Emphasis on Auditory-verbal Therapy

Adéla Hanáková

Mgr. Adéla Hanáková, Ph.D., Institute of Special Education Studies, Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, Žižkovo nám. 5, 771 40 Olomouc, CZ, E-mail: aja6@centrum.cz

The goal of the following article is to open the topic of teamwork in care for clients with a hearing impairment. The consequences the hearing impairment has on an individual require complex and long-term professional influence, and, at the same time, more levels of these consequences induce the need for defining broadly the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary team of professionals participating in the education and the therapy of these individuals and their families. The topic of team approaches constitutes a very lively discussed issue providing an extensive space for scientific-research activity both in our country and elsewhere. In the next section, we focus on early intervention approach for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families.

Keywords: team approach, family, child with hearing impairment, early intervention, professionals, auditory-verbal therapy

Published: August 1, 2014  Show citation