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Caring Professionals  Caring Professionals

Our Moog School Staff includes 10 full-time educators and 3 speech-language pathologists. In the school we have a teacher-pupil ratio of about 1 to 3 and in the Family School toddler program the ratio is 1 to 2.  We have three pediatric audiologists who have been certified by ASHA, AAA and two of them are Board Certified in Audiology with a specialty in Cochlear Implants.

Eleven of our faculty have attained through the AG Bell Academy the certification of A Listening and Spoken Language Specialist in Auditory Verbal Education (LSLS Cert. AVEd.).  Currently there are only 111 LSLS Cert. AVEd in the world, which means 10% of the Listening and Spoken Language Specialists in Auditory Verbal Education are on staff at the Moog Center.

The staff at Moog Center has taken a leadership role in oral deaf education. We provide training to other teachers, serving as invited speakers to workshops and in-service programs throughout the country. Our teaching staff has the know-how, dedication, experience and energy to make a significant difference for the children we teach. Our pediatric audiologists are especially skilled in working with young infants and toddlers and in working with both cochlear implants and digital hearing aids.

   

Audiologists  Audiologists

We have three pediatric audiologists to serve the families and children in our Family School and School as well as alumni who continue to receive services from Moog Center. All three have extensive experience with very young children and with cochlear implants. Both skills are critical as more and more of our children are getting their implants at one year or shortly thereafter. We provide MAPping on-site at our school and this is very advantageous since typically 80% of our children have cochlear implants and we know how important access to sound is for those learning to talk. We believe that optimal access to sound has a huge impact in terms of rate of progress in children. Our skilled pediatric audiologists are able to respond within an hour if a child has a problem or if a cochlear implant needs "tweaking." This has resulted in our children achieving excellent speech perception skills, which has contributed to their accelerated learning. Our audiologists have also participated in research studies designed to evaluate various aspects of cochlear implant performance. As increasing numbers of our children are getting bilateral cochlear implants our audiologists are busier than ever.

   

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