Suzanne Harrigan

The Ear Foundation · research department

This paper reports on a survey and interviews carried out with adults who have gone through the cochlear implantation pathway. It explores their experiences of current services, the assessment process for implantation, and the impact on their daily lives, including views and experiences on communication, independence and confidence. It also explore...

Objective: To explore the views of cochlear implant centre teams about the process of referral, assessment and rehabilitation for children with complex needs. Methods: An on-line survey of cochlear implant centres in the UK and in the Netherlands was carried out, with both quantitative and qualitative questions. The survey was designed and pilot...

The Leaping on with Language programme provides a combination of strategies and activities to accelerate children's spoken language use from simple sentences to complex language. Using a conversational philosophy it expands the building blocks of language (vocabulary, grammar, speech), whilst emphasising the importance of developing independent soc...

Objectives: This study qualitatively explored parents' perspectives on their experiences of, access to, and outcomes from, cochlear implantation for their child with complex needs. Methods: Purposive sampling was used to recruit 10 parents of children with varying additional disabilities. The age range of the children was between 2 and 11 years at...

To assess the effect of a parent interaction training course on the communication skills of parents of young implanted children. The training course was designed to help parents to be less controlling in their interactions with their deaf children and to facilitate the development of spoken language. Prospective study comparing the communication sk...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the change in effective communication between parents and children with cochlear implants when the parents attended a modified Hanen training course (Watson 1995). The study demonstrates that the course led to improvement in the effectiveness of the parent-child interaction, as rated by naïve independent...