Acknowledgements
This research was funded by the British Council, CNPq (Brazilian Federal financial support agency) and FAPESP (Brazilian
State financial support agency). Special thanks go to the staff of the Setor de Audiologia Educacional (Educational Audiology
Service), to the children and their parents.
Appendix A. Continuing education
CEU Questions
1. The relevance of the protocol to Brazilian health professionals is due to its usefulness as an instrument for gathering
relevant information about pre-school hearing and deaf children’s communicative abilities. True/False.
2. The protocol provides information about deaf children’s language profile and about the parameters for the intervention
program. True/False.
3. The four sub-sections of the protocol may help health-professionals to design an effective intervention program centered
on a family basis. True/False.
4. In additional to describing the children’s communication profile, the deaf children were delayed in their communication
abilities independently of their linguistic level of communication and their preferred modality of communication. True/
False.
5. The protocol indicates that clinical assessment needs to be complemented by a ‘‘picture’’ of the child as a communicator
outside the context of the clinic, by comparing mother’s and examiner’s evaluations. True/False.