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listen2learn Auditory-Verbal Therapy Anne Gabrielides [email protected] 0419325035 Auditory-Verbal Therapy…. Success for Life 1 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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. 2 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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 3 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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 4 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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 5 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy? Parents need: Zara (1998) ‘Expectations’ that are high and realistic 6 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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 7 potential. Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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- 8 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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 9 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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 10 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 http://www.hearing.com.au/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=38&languageId==1&contentId=-1 11 12 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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) Caleffe-Schenck (2005) 13 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life Developing Listening and Auditory Function Activities and games that stimulate your child’s auditory development happen all the time! At: feeding playing nappy changing cuddling reading bathing Pollack, Goldberg & Caleffe-Schenck (1997) 14 The Difference Between Hearing and Listening The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1998) •Hearing: ‘to perceive with the ear’ •Listening: ‘to hear with attention’ 15 The Difference Between Hearing and Listening ‘Hearing is when a sound reaches your ears, listening is when it reaches your brain!’ (Source unknown) automatic It takes practice Listening is not 16 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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/ 17 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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. 18 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life Basic AVT Techniques Activities will involve: +games +songs +toys +fun activities that are easily replicated at home 19 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life The Parent’s Role champion facilitator advocate partner PARENT role model team player 20 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life The Parent’s Role be motivated provide a rich listening environment be actively involved stimulate hearing, listening and talking PARENTS be kind to yourselves be patient can: delight in your child’s growth love and nurture join support groups 21 Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life 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) 22