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UNC-Chapel Hill Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences
 

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Admissions note: FIRST YEARS is not accepting applications at this time.

Girl with cochlear implantWelcome to the FIRST YEARS Certificate in Auditory Learning for Young Children with Hearing Loss -- a new certificate program committed to enhancing the knowledge and skills of professionals practicing in the fields of deaf education, speech-language pathology, audiology, and early intervention. FIRST YEARS, a collaboration between the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, uses distance education technology to bring school to you -- any time, any place.  AG Bell and UNC-Chapel Hill are grateful for generous grants from the Oticon Foundation and NEC Foundation of America for partial support of this project during 2006 and 2007.

FIRST YEARS targets its certificate courses to professionals interested in expanding their knowledge and skills related to auditory-oral and auditory-verbal approaches to therapy and intervention. Topics include: speech acoustics, anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, audiological management, hearing aids, cochlear implants, classroom amplification, development of spoken language and speech production, and emerging literacy. The course readings, instruction by our faculty experts, online discussion, group and individual projects and exercises -- plus mentored practicum experiences in early intervention, educational, and clinical settings -- combine to make FIRST YEARS a unique online learning experience. Problems? Technical support is only an e-mail or phone call away. 

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09/25/03

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of HearingUNC School of Medicine Division of Speech and Hearing Science

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