Early Intervention Protocols: Proposing a Default Bimodal Bilingual Approach for Deaf Children
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) system has three principal components designed to, “maximize language and communication competence, literacy development, and psychosocial well-being for children who are deaf or hard of hearing” (Joint Committee on Infant Hearing [JCIH] 2019[1], p. 3). These components or phases are designed to ensure infants are identified as early as possible in order to...