1 listen2learn Auditory-Verbal Therapy Anne Gabrielides Auditory-Verbal Therapy…. Success for Life

2 What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy? Immediate practical support for babies, children and their families to access their residual hearing in order to communicate for life. Offers hope, encouragement, support, expertise, guidance and nurturing. Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

3 What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy? Individualised and family-centred Teaches natural spoken language and listening following natural child development models using evidence based research Allows the full range of educational, social and vocational choices for your child Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

4 What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy? Practical Implications +Immediate fitting of hearing aids and/or cochlear implant +weekly sessions with the therapist designed to be fun and practical +Carry-over activities in the home based on your own family and child’s needs Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

5 What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy? Practical Implications +entering into a partnership with the therapist and audiological team +being your child’s advocate +learning to stimulate speech, language and communication, plan strategies and make informed decisions Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

6 What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy? Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life ‘ Patience ’ with the team and your child ‘ Access ’ to the new technology and how to use it ‘ Relevance ’ engaging activities to stimulate learning ‘ Success ’ to integrate this process into your family ‘Time’ to learn ‘ Nurturing ’ for your child and yourselves ‘ Expectations ’ that are high and realistic Parents need: Zara (1998)

7 The AVT Framework Young children can use technology assisted hearing to learn to listen, process verbal language and to speak. These same children can enter mainstream schools and be independent citizens in mainstream society. Your child needs highly enhanced auditory and language input to reach potential. Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

8 The AVT Framework Parents acquire training and knowledge during therapy sessions that are easily transferred to home Therapy sessions are always diagnostic and proactive Listening and auditory understanding is promoted as part of your child’s day-to- day experience without the use of lipreading or signing. Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

9 The AVT Framework All therapy goals are part of normal developmental goals leading to mainstream schooling The ‘structure’ is highly flexible relying on documented therapist and parent evaluations, goal planning and links to established developmental norms Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

10 Types of Hearing Loss Hearing loss can be described by the type of loss: *conductive *sensorineural *mixed Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

11 Reading an Audiogram Your child will have had an audiogram that you, the therapist and audiologist will use constantly to best plan for your child’s new technology and learning

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13 Caleffe-Schenck (2005) Developing Listening and Auditory Function 1. ‘Auditory awareness and perception 2. Auditory attention and inhibition 3. Distance hearing 4. Localization 5. Discrimination 6. Auditory feedback and monitoring 7. Auditory memory store 8. Auditory memory span and sequencing 9. Auditory processing 10. Auditory understanding’ (p. 12) Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

14 Pollack, Goldberg & Caleffe-Schenck (1997) Developing Listening and Auditory Function Activities and games that stimulate your child’s auditory development happen all the time! At: feedingcuddling playingreading nappy changingbathing Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

15 The Difference Between Hearing and Listening The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1998) Hearing : ‘to perceive with the ear’ Listening : ‘to hear with attention’

16 The Difference Between Hearing and Listening ‘Hearing is when a sound reaches your ears, listening is when it reaches your brain !’ (Source unknown) Listening is not automatic It takes practice

17 What can Impact on Child Development? Your child is developing in four overlapping areas: Physical Development Thinking skills Social and Emotional Development Communication Skills Read more at Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

18 What can Impact on Child Development? Your child’s hearing impairment can impact on all four areas of natural child development unless listening and communicating becomes part of their personality. AVT addresses this for your child. Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

19 Basic AVT Techniques Activities will involve: +games +songs +toys +fun activities that are easily replicated at home Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

20 The Parent’s Role champion role model team player partner advocate facilitator PARENT Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

21 The Parent’s Role PARENTS can: be actively involved be patient join support groups be motivated provide a rich listening environment stimulate hearing, listening and talking be kind to yourselvesdelight in your child’s growth love and nurture Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life

22 Vygotsky (1995) “One must keep in mind that any child with a disability is first of all a child…. From a psychological and pedagogical point of view, one must treat the child with a disability in the same way as a normal one.” (p. 4) Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life