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Auditory Verbal Therapy
The Auditory-Verbal approach uses parent centered, diagnostic/demonstration therapy to
maximize a child's residual hearing with the goal of developing spoken language to its
fullest potential. The therapist and parents will work together within sessions to develop
strategies to target areas of auditory, language and speech development for home
carry-over. The Auditory-Verbal approach advocates for participation in regular
educational environments to the earliest and fullest extent.
maximize a child's residual hearing with the goal of developing spoken language to its
fullest potential. The therapist and parents will work together within sessions to develop
strategies to target areas of auditory, language and speech development for home
carry-over. The Auditory-Verbal approach advocates for participation in regular
educational environments to the earliest and fullest extent.
Auditory Verbal Therapy
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- Promote early diagnosis of hearing impairment in newborns, infants, toddlers, and
children, followed by immediate audiologic management and Auditory-Verbal therapy.
- Recommend immediate assessment and use of appropriate, state-of-the-art hearing
technology to obtain maximum benefits of auditory stimulation.
- Guide and coach parents* to help their child use hearing as the primary sensory
modality in developing spoken language without the use of sign language or emphasis
on lipreading.
- Guide and coach parents* to become the primary facilitators of their child’s listening
and spoken language development through active consistent participation in
individualized Auditory-Verbal therapy.
- Create environments that support listening for the acquisition of spoken language
throughout the child’s daily activities.
- Guide and coach parents* to help their child integrate listening and spoken language
into all aspects of the child’s life.
- Guide and coach parents* to use natural developmental patterns of audition, speech,
language, cognition, and communication.
- Guide and coach parents* to help their child self-monitor spoken language through
listening.
- Administer ongoing formal and informal diagnostic assessments to develop
individualized Auditory-Verbal treatment plans, to monitor , progress and to evaluate
the effectiveness of the plans for the child and family.
- Promote education in regular classrooms with typical hearing peers and with
appropriate support services from early childhood onwards.
*"parents" also includes grandparents, guardians, and any caregivers who interact with the child
Principles of AV Practice
A committed auditory verbal therapist will.....
"family centered auditory and speech/language services"
| (principles of Auditory-Verbal Practice, originally developed by Doreen Pollack, 1970, adapted by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language, July 26, 2007.) |