Acknowledgments -- Editor -- Preface / Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed., AVT -- Contributors -- Foreword / Stephen Epstein, M.C. -- History and ethical issues -- Surgery and programming -- Habilitation -- Family stories from around the world -- Appendices: A - Meaningful auditory integration (MAIS) -- B - Infant-toddler: Meaningful auditory integration scale (IT-MAIS) -- C- Auditory-verbal ages and stages of development -- D - Listening skills scale for kids with cochlear implants (LKKKCI) -- Sounds of speech -- Learning to listen sounds and songs.