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Auditory-Verbal Therapy

Anne [email protected]

0419325035

Auditory-Verbal Therapy…. Success for Life

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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

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• 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


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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


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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


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‘Patience

’ with

the team and your

child

‘Access’

to the

new technology

and how to use it

‘Releva

nce’

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)

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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.


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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.


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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


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Types of Hearing Loss

Hearing loss can be described by the

type of loss:

* conductive

* sensorineural

* mixed


http://www.hearing.com.au/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=38&languageId==1&contentId=-1

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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 learninghttp://www.hearing.com.au/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=38&languageId==1&contentId=-1

13Caleffe-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)


14Pollack, Goldberg & Caleffe-Schenck (1997)

Developing Listening and Auditory Function

Activities and games that stimulate your child’s auditory development happen all

the time!

At: feeding cuddling

playing reading nappy changing bathing


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The Difference Between Hearing and Listening

The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1998)

•Hearing: ‘to perceive with the ear’

•Listening: ‘to hear with attention’

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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

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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 http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/


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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.


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Basic AVT Techniques

Activities will involve:

+games+songs+toys

+fun activities that are easily replicated at home


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The Parent’s Role

champion

role model

team playerpartner

advocate

facilitator

PARENT


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The Parent’s Role

PARENTS

can:

be actively involved

be patientjoin support groups

be motivatedprovide a rich listening environment

stimulate hearing, listening and talking

be kind to yourselves delight in your child’s growth

love and nurture


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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)


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Documents

child auditoryverbal

mixed auditoryverbal

life slide

therapy goals

auditory understanding

home therapy sessions

process verbal language

learning success