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Purpose:
To help young hearing-impaired preschoolers develop listening and spoken language abilities in the context of an integrated, developmentally appropriate, NAEYC- accredited preschool, the Soundbridge Early Learning Center.

Components:

• Teacher of the hearing-impaired who specializes in helping hearing-impaired children learn spoken language through audition.
  
  
• Acoustically appropriate instructional environment, with on-site audiological services including evaluations of personal amplification and FM systems.
  
  
• Screening, assessment and determination of individual objectives for each child.
  
  
• Systematic auditory-oral instruction to promote each child’s auditory, language, and speech development in small group and individual sessions, at spaced intervals throughout the day.
  
  
• Regular parent guidance sessions to help parents work and play effectively with their child in stimulating their child’s auditory and spoken language development all waking hours outside of school.
  
  
• Mainstreaming/inclusion in a preschool environment that fosters age-appropriate physical, social-emotional, self help, and readiness abilities, as well as confidence and joy in learning.
  
  
• Parent support, parent network, educational and social events for families.
  
  
• Occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychological evaluations, counseling, as appropriate.

Contact:
Dr. Elizabeth B. Cole
Director, CREC Soundbridge
123 Progress Drive
Wethersfield, CT   06109
(860) 529-4260 (voice and TTY)
(860) 257-8500 (fax)