Adult Habilitation

“Auditrain” is a training program designed to help cochlear implant users improve their communication skills. It contains twenty-two individual lesson plans, each of which contains both synthetic and analytic exercises. The synthetic materials – question and answer exercises, lists of common sentences around a central theme, word matrices and many other exercises – are designed to help CI users optimize the use of their cochlear implant in everyday situations. Developed by Geoff Plant.

“SpeechTrax” is a resource for clinicians to use with individuals for whom conventional speech tracking may not be appropriate. This material features a modified version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story, “The Tinderbox.” This engaging story is divided into 53 sections, each of which consists of brief phrases (averaging 8 words each) for a total of 200 words per section. “SpeechTrax” is an effective and enjoyable approach to helping cochlear implant users develop and improve their communication skills. Developed by Geoff Plant.

“Hear at Home” was developed to meet the needs of people with cochlear implants who require training and support, but who are without easy or ready access to trained therapists. “Hear at Home” is designed for home use with family members and/or friends as the talkers. The exercises provide the talker with detailed instructions for presentation of the materials. This program is divided into 10 separate sessions. In each session a series of speech sounds are introduced in words and sentences. Other exercises are provided which provide additional practice in the recognition of connected speech. Developed by Geoff Plant.

“Syntrain” was created to meet the needs of the special group of adult clients who have poor reading skills. This material is also useful for therapy with older children and teenagers. “Syntrain” has a series of pictorial exercises that require little or no reading. Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included. Developed by Geoff Plant.

“Analytika” is a collection of analytic test and training lists for use with adults and older children. Almost 600 lists are presented in a Word© format on a CD to allow for easy editing and printing. This means therapists can adjust the words to suit regional dialects, etc. An instruction manual is provided in PDF format. Developed by Geoff Plant.

Communication Testing
and Training Materials

“An AR Sampler” contains a number of test and training resources applicable to day-to-day clinical work in speech pathology and audiology. The material is useful for both older children and adults with severe to profound hearing losses. “An AR Sampler” contains 8 different testing and training resources: consonant lists, Contentest, high frequency word lists, most frequent CVC lists, most frequent sentences lists, poems for younger children, poems for older children and a modified speech tracking story. Developed by Geoff Plant.

Introducing Music to Adults with Cochlear Implants

“Music Notes” is a resource for therapists and rehabilitation professionals. It provides clinicians with an overview of music and cochlear implants. “Music Notes” offers suggestions to help enhance music experiences for adults with cochlear implants. Areas covered include early listening activities, music focus groups and music making. This material also provides a number of resources for use in clinical settings. Developed by Geoff Plant