Specific aural rehabilitation services for children depend on individual needs and when and why the hearing loss was developed.

An aural rehabilitation plan for a child is also influenced by the communication mode the child is using:

• Auditory-oral
• Auslan
• Total communication
• Cued speech

The combination of early detection of hearing loss and early use of amplification has been shown to have a dramatically positive effect on the language abilities of a child with hearing loss.