Auditory Rehabilitation:

• Helps people with hearing loss relearn skills they have lost

• Helps people with new hearing loss cope with the new changes

• Helps people with hearing loss learn to communicate better

Auditory Habilitation:

• Helps people who were born with hearing loss learn to hear and listen

• Habilitation can include:

  • Finding ways to communicate

  • Learning speech and/or language

  • Learning to listen

  • Learning to use amplification devices (e.g., hearing aids or cochlear implants)

Benefits of Habilitation/Rehabilitation:

• Can have considerable positive benefits

• Can improve quality of life

• Can improve effective use of communication tools and strategies

Auditory Training:

• A personalized training/therapy program aimed at improving auditory skills

• Helps improve auditory memory, auditory processing, and auditory attention