listen2learn Auditory-Verbal Therapy

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listen2learn Auditory-Verbal Therapy

• Anne Gabrielides
• anne_at_listen2learn.com.au
• 0419325035

Auditory-Verbal Therapy. Success for Life
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What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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.

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What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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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What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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 childs needs

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What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• Practical Implications
• entering into a partnership with the therapist
  and audiological team
• being your childs advocate
• learning to stimulate speech, language and
  communication, plan strategies and make informed
  decisions

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What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life
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The AVT Framework
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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 childs day-to-day experience
  without the use of lipreading or signing.

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The AVT Framework
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• Hearing loss can be described by the type of
  loss
• conductive
• sensorineural
• mixed

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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 childs new technology and
  learning

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Pictorial
Audiogram
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Developing Listening and Auditory Function
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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)

Caleffe-Schenck (2005)
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Developing Listening and Auditory Function
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• Activities and games that stimulate your childs
  auditory development happen all the time!
• At
• feeding cuddling
• playing reading
• nappy changing bathing

Pollack, Goldberg Caleffe-Schenck (1997)
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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?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• Your child is developing in four overlapping
  areas

Physical Development
Social and Emotional Development
Communication Skills
Thinking skills
Read more at http//www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/
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What can Impact on Child Development?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• Your childs 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
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• Activities will involve
• games
• songs
• toys
• fun activities
• that are easily replicated at home

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The Parents Role
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life
champion
facilitator
PARENT
advocate
role model
partner
team player
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The Parents Role
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life
provide a rich listening environment
be motivated
be actively involved
stimulate hearing, listening and talking
PARENTS can
be kind to yourselves
delight in your childs growth
love and nurture
be patient
join support groups
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Vygotsky (1995)
Auditory-Verbal Therapy.Success for Life

• 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)