During the past few years technics for diagnosing auditory defects in young children have improved significantly. Educational treatment for the young deaf child can be begun earlier and effective methods to do this are delineated in this book. It should be helpful to parents in understanding goals to be set for the young child. The technics elaborated are those of language development rather than of simply speech, a much more fruitful concept. It is directed toward establishing communication and not at speech correction.