Leaflets
Helping your baby learn to listen
This leaflet is aimed at helping parents/carers to switch on their baby’s awareness of sound and listening. It is useful for children who have hearing aids or cochlear implants.
Improving communication for people with severe/profound hearing loss
This booklet includes advice and information on how you can make the most of your hearing, and what others can do to help when you cannot hear easily. It also includes information on useful organisations and resources you might use.
Cochlear implant assessment for adults and older children
This leaflet explains what a cochlear implant is and outlines the appointments that may be required to help decide whether patients would benefit from cochlear implantation.
Preparing for your cochlear implant
This leaflet explains how a cochlear implant works and the main risks associated with a cochlear implant operation. It would be helpful for patients when preparing for a meeting with one of our surgeons.
The following leaflets are designed to help patients when receiving their new sound processors and accessories, either before initial programming or when a new replacement processor is being issued:
An introduction to your new equipment - Nucleus 7 leaflet to print
An introduction to your new equipment - Nucleus 7 pdf web doc
An introduction to your new equipment - Kanso 2 leaflet to print
An introduction to your new equipment - Kanso 2 pdf web doc
An introduction to your new equipment - Sonnet 2 leaflet to print
An introduction to your new equipment - Rondo 3 leaflet to print
2590v1_An introduction to your new equipment - Rondo 3 pdf web doc
An introduction to your new equipment - Naida Q90 leaflet to print
An introduction to your new equipment - Naida Q90 pdf web doc
NAMES: Nottingham Auditory Milestones
NAMES is a profile that was developed by the Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme for our youngest clients (under 2-3 years old at the time of operation). It is based on recognised developmental hierarchies and charts progress in the growth of active listening and auditory memory from very early listening skills through to a sufficient understanding of spoken language to enable children to learn by listening within a group situation as would typically be the case in early educational settings.
NAMES is designed to be used by teachers of the deaf, speech and language therapists or other local professionals along with parents and carers. Progress is charted by familiar adults, based on observations of responses and behaviours in everyday situations and in play based activities.
Click below to download copies of the NAMES profile and supporting materials:
NAMES instruction booklet
NAMES summary record
NAMES extended examples
NAMES probe activities
Listening skills questionnaire
To obtain further information speak to any member of our Outreach Support Team or contact: angela.maxwell@nuh.nhs.uk
NAMES Trajectory
This new tool is based on, and used alongside, the NAMES profile (above). The development of the trajectory tool was based on the outcomes of implanted children measured on the NAMES profile (Datta et al., 2018). The distribution of their profile scores across five assessment time-points, established a developmental trajectory for typically developing children during the first three years after cochlear implantation.
The trajectory tool is designed and validated only for children implanted under the age of two years, who have no other diagnosed difficulties. It automatically converts scores to a chart plotted against a background of the expected range of scores for each assessment interval and provides a mechanism to identify children not making the expected progress. This flags up and supports the need for a review of approach or a differential diagnosis if necessary.
Click below to download the NAMES trajectory as a Microsoft Excel document. Save it as your master or template and then use ‘Save as ….’ to save separate copies as individual records for each child:
NAMES trajectory
Related study:
Datta, G. et.al. Development and validation of the Nottingham Auditory Milestones (NAMES) profile for deaf children under 2 years old, using cochlear implants. Cochlear Implants International, 19(4): 181-192.
To obtain further information speak to any member of our Outreach Support Team or contact: angela.maxwell@nuh.nhs.uk
Early CaLL: Early Cognitive and Listening Links (Revised 2019)
This profile was developed by the Outreach Support Team at NAIP, for children with complex needs, specifically those with severe/profound learning difficulties. The families of children with significant additional difficulties are unlikely to have a clear guide for expectations of cochlear implantation, as the vast majority of information currently available, focuses on the typically developing population. This framework aims to help parents/carers and professionals when discussing expectations for outcomes. It explores the fundamental inter-relationship between a child’s listening and understanding and their cognitive and communicative abilities and how these inter-relationships impact on likely outcomes. After implantation, it also gives us the opportunity to record small steps of progress over the first five years of cochlear implant use which informs on-going expectations and planning.
The framework has two main sections, an individual developmental profile and a record of signal tolerance and equipment use. It also includes a range of supporting materials.
Click below to download copies of the Early CaLL profile and supporting materials (Revised 2019):
Early CaLL instruction booklet
Early CaLL case studies
Early CaLL record of equipment use, signal tolerance and integration
Early CaLL individual detailed profile
Early CaLL detailed examples for strands
To obtain further information speak to any member of our Outreach Support Team or contact: karen.durbin@nuh.nhs.uk
Related Studies:
Datta, G. et. al. (2020) The development and implementation Early Cognitive and Listening Links (Early CaLL) Cochlear Implants International, 21(1): 18-34
Datta, G. et. al.(2020) An analysis of the five year outcomes of a cohort of 46 deaf children using the Early Cognitive and Listening Links (Early CaLL): Cochlear Implants International, 21(1): 35-45
The Outreach Support Team at NAIP are developing other new materials for use with children being assessed for cochlear implantation and those already implanted. You can help by piloting these materials in your area. For further information contact Jayne.inscoe@nuh.nhs.uk at NAIP
Further Training
Staff at the Nottingham Cochlear Implant Team can provide further training on both this material and a range of other topics.
For local professionals who have patients registered on our programme, some training is provided free of charge (see our Professional Development Groups). Other training can be arranged with a fee to cover costs.
If you wish to know more about our training programme, please contact us at naip@nuh.nhs.uk or talk to the members of the Outreach Support Team who visit your area.
Radio system policy
This NAIP policy was written as guidance for our team and for local professionals thinking about radio systems for deaf children with cochlear implants.
Radio system policy 2017.pdf[pdf] 473KB
It was written with reference to the NDCS 2017 Quality Standards for the use of Personal Radio systems:
http://www.ndcs.org.uk/applications/publications_shop/view.rm?id=11398
